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There is a long and continuing history of racialized science and medicine in the U.S.. Given this history, Black women are at special risk when it comes to recent developments and applications of gene-editing technologies. There is good reason to be concerned that CRISPR techniq…

Cyanobacteria offer promise as alternative microorganisms to heterotrophic bacteria like Escherichia coli ( E. coli ) because of their ability for oxygenic photosynthesis, faster growth compared to plants, high solar conversion efficiencies, and smaller genomes more amenable to …

One of the most surprising realisations to emerge from metagenomics studies in the early ‘00s was that the population of viruses and phages in nature is about 10 times larger than the population of prokaryotic organisms. Thus, bacteria and archaea are under constant pressure to …