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

A research team led by Drs. Se Hee Lee and Tae Woong Whon at WiKim focused on a kimchi-derived bacterium called Leuconostoc mesenteroides CBA3656.

From Science Daily • May 18, 2026

This approach revealed traces of ancient pathogens, including the plague bacterium Yersinia pestis and the organism responsible for louse-borne relapsing fever, Borrelia recurrentis.

From Science Daily • Apr. 22, 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

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