How to survive boiling water(taxa.substack.com)
463 points by cainxinth | 105 comments
A Substack essay from Taxa about a notorious MIT milk carton and how certain bacteria can survive boiling water, framed as a probiotic paradox.
#bacteria on Hacker News
3 stories tagged bacteria, newest first.
The baffling intelligence of a single cell: The story of E. coli chemotaxis(jsomers.net)
482 points by jsomers | 197 comments
An essay by James Somers and Edwin Morris explaining how a single E. coli cell forages for nutrients through chemotaxis, framed as an elemental form of intelligence.
A bacterial culprit for rheumatoid arthritis?(the-scientist.com)
397 points by pseudolus | 187 comments
The Scientist news article on research suggesting a bacterium may play a role in triggering rheumatoid arthritis.