bacteria

Their work helped establish an important connection between toxin-producing gut bacteria, chronic inflammation, and colorectal cancer.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026

CRISPR-Cas is best known for its role in modern gene-editing technologies, but bacteria originally evolved these systems as defenses against viruses.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026

When this protein is broken apart, the barrier becomes compromised, potentially allowing harmful substances and bacteria to interfere with the surrounding tissue.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026

Wu wanted to determine whether these same compounds might also affect bacteria found in dental plaque.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026

Under the microscope, streptococci bacteria have a distinctive beads-on-a-string appearance.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman

Although the presence of this bacterium does not automatically mean someone will develop cancer, certain strains produce a powerful toxin capable of disrupting the colon's protective lining, causing inflammation, and encouraging tumor growth.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026

When a phage infects the bacterium, it disrupts this protective arrangement, allowing the toxin to act.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026

The bacterium that causes it still exists in parts of Africa and Asia, including Siberia.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Plague is a disease caused by the Yersinia pestis bacterium, the same pathogen that killed millions of people in Europe during the Middle Ages.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

At various places inside the monkey house, they set out patches of paper saturated with spores of a harmless bacterium known as Bacillus subtilis niger.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston