Belly Button Bacteria

 

h/t: In the hunt for new antibiotics, the genius of simplicity, by Carl Zimmer on STAT;

 

Cirque de l’Étoile

  
Sak Sarel! (Accelerated vertical gene transfer.)

Rubbadubbadub

  
It will all come out in the wash! Brush up on biology…

H/T:  The Genome of the Tardigrade Hypsibius dujardini

Bear on a Bicycle

  
H/T to CRISPR and HGT.