Fascinating lab-driven evolution of the Botox bacterium, Clostridium botulinum. In the wild, its aim is to turn your body into an anaerobic fermenter - but no hard feelings.

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In 1929, Alexander Fleming published his paper outlining the antibacterial properties of penicillin, and paved the way for a new era of antibiotics. Read the Nobel Prize laureate's full article online: https://t.co/fPKDufTlbD #OpenAccessWeek

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Some molecules, such as amino acids, exist as two variants that are each other’s mirror image. However, living organisms only contain one of these mirror images. How chemical asymmetry such as this could have emerged was long a mystery to chemists.

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Andre Geim is the only scientist to win both the Nobel Prize (Physics, 2010) and the Ig Nobel Prize (for levitating a frog in 2000). His secret? He says it was to set up an environment in his lab for doing experiments from a sense of play and a spirit for adventure!

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The 10th Murnau Conference last week was great fun and featured amazing science and scientist, with few of them being awarded the newly introduced Murnau medal for their contributions to the structural biology community: Irmi Sinning, Stefan Raunser and Sebastian Hiller.

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