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Case Western Reserve University-led study with Ohio State University and DOE Joint Genome Institute reveals how often microbes trade genes—and what it means for climate change.

Case Western Reserve University-led study with Ohio State University and DOE Joint Genome Institute reveals how often microbes trade genes—and what it means for climate change.

Amid the peatlands of northern Sweden, billions of microbes are quietly rewriting their genetic playbooks—and doing so far more often than scientists realized.

A new study led by researchers at Case Western Reserve University provides one of the clearest pictures yet of how frequently microbes—tiny living organisms too small to see with the naked eye—swap, gain and lose genes in nature.

Studying microbes can provide important clues to understanding climate change.

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