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An international team of biologists led by Washington State University Professor Haluk Beyenal has discovered a new type of cooperative photosynthesis that could be used in microbial communities for waste treatment and energy production. A false-color scanning electron micrograph of G. sulfurreducens-P. aestuarii co-culture. Scale bar – 5??m. Image credit: …

Biologists at Vanderbilt University have discovered DNA of the black widow spider toxin in the genome of a virus that attacks Wolbachia, a type of symbiotic bacteria that infects a wide range of invertebrate species, like shrimps, spiders and parasitic worms. Electron microphotograph shows two Wolbachia cells that have infected …