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Almost 500 delegates gather in Birmingham for Europe’s first Minoritised Life Scientists Future Forum

2025-04-03T15:58:00+01:00

Almost 500 delegates gathered at the ICC in Birmingham over three days this week for the first ever Minoritised Life Scientists Future Forum, which was supported by Applied Microbiology International.

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A borrowed bacterial gene allowed some marine diatoms to live on a seaweed diet

2025-04-01T18:01:00+01:00By

A group of diatom species belonging to the Nitzschia genus gave up on photosynthesis and now get their carbon straight from their environment, thanks to a bacterial gene picked up by an ancestor, a new study shows.