While previous research had described bidirectional promoters in eukaryotes, as well as in a few bacteria and archaea species, the new study establishes divergent transcription—the reading of genes in ...

Didier Raoult cautions that the use of probiotics as growth promoters in the farming industry ... for human consumption products containing bacteria that have been associated with weight gain ...

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Scientists have discovered a protein that enables bacteria to shut down into dormant spores under extreme conditions. The process, which enables the bacteria to become practically indestructible ...

But as growth promoters, the antibiotics have been shown to kill “friendly bacteria” whose presence is symbiotic (benefits the host animal by keeping bad bacteria at bay) in the long run ...