Microbiologists Discover Lazy Cheating Bacteria

Baseball had its steroids and Black Sox. Politics lived through Watergate. Wall Street has been riddled with insider trading scandals. And before we cast the first stone, who among us has never tried to get through an intersection on a yellow light?But bacteria? Even BACTERIA are lousy little cheaters, doing anything they can to gain an edge? Say it ain’t so, Shoeless Joe.Alas, it appears to be. [click link for full article]

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Filed under: Biology on September 26th, 2007