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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The bacterium, Tersicoccus phoenicis, was named to reference its discovery in clean rooms (“Tersi”, Latin for clean), its cell ...

In a way, it all started with a road trip about a decade ago. "My father, he had the car so I had to borrow the car from him," says Youcef Sellam, who was interning at the University of Modena e ...