bacterium
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Researchers say the findings indicate the bacterium may help remove nanoplastics from the body by binding to the particles in the intestine and promoting their excretion.
From Science Daily • May 18, 2026
Earlier research in the series focused mainly on Yersinia pestis, the bacterium responsible for plague.
From Science Daily • Apr. 23, 2026
If the virus changes how the bacterium behaves, it could alter the gut environment in ways that influence cancer risk.
From Science Daily • Apr. 22, 2026
Now, researchers from the University of Southern Denmark and Odense University Hospital have identified a previously unknown virus inside a common gut bacterium.
From Science Daily • Apr. 22, 2026
His cilia are not cilia at all, but individual spirochetes, and at the base of attachment of each spirochete is an oval organelle, embedded in the myxotricha membrane, which is a bacterium.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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