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Researchers have, for the first time, estimated how quickly E. coli bacteria can spread between people — and one strain moves ...

A team from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology has discovered a new class of bacterial mobile genetic elements that use giant viruses—known as jumbo phages—to move between cells. The ...