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A new Science study led by researchers at Washington University in St. Louis finds that under certain conditions, increasing microbial diversity can make ecosystems more predictable. The research ...

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New research from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, published in Nature Microbiology, reveals that when microbes live ...

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