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Predators drive the evolution of multicellularity

Discussions about the evolution of multicellularity tend to focus on animals and plants, but there have actually been at least 25 independent origins of multicellularity in the history of life on this planet, including fungi, slime molds, several groups of algae, cyanobacteria and myxobacteria. So... click to read more

Kimberly Chen | Postdoctoral Research Fellow at School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Matthew Herron | Senior Research Scientist at School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

algae

microalgae

multicellularity

predation

Reading time 3.5 min

published on Sep 10, 2019

The antibacterial life of abandoned mines

The rapid worldwide rise in bacterial resistance to existing commercial antibiotics is a looming health crisis. Indeed, by the middle of the century, some predictions suggest that more people will die from bacterial infections than from cancer. There is a clear demand for new and... click to read more

Gerusa Senhorinho | Senior Research Scientist at ONGEN group, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Canada

John Ashley Scott | Professor at ONGEN group, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Canada

antimicrobial resistance

antibiotics

antimicrobial

microalgae

mine sites

bioprospecting

Reading time 3.5 min

published on Sep 9, 2019