bacteria
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He goes on to emphasize that what Claude found — a previously uncharacterized enzyme system found in viruses that infect bacteria — isn’t necessarily going to be useful.
From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2026
"The bacteria spreads more easily in that group, it's lots of people mixing together, and more independence as people move away from parents."
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
"For anybody who studies pathogenic bacteria, it's always in the back of our minds that antibiotics are one of the most important breakthroughs in medicine in the 20th century," Barber said.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026
Close relatives of lactoferrin do not share this bacteria killing ability.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026
A cut or break in the skin lets staph and strep bacteria colonize the warm, wet, nutrient-rich cells inside.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
By analyzing DNA from the plague bacterium preserved in archaeological human remains, scientists were able to reconstruct how the disease spread, evolved, and repeatedly reappeared long after the Black Death.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
It uses a harmless bacterium to insert DNA into the rootstock exactly where it is needed to give the tree resistance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
The team found DNA from Yersinia pestis - the bacterium that causes plague - in 18 of the 46 people tested.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026
Infection with this bacterium is a known risk factor for gastric cancer.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026
All of us carry the bacterium in our bodies, probably since birth or immediately thereafter.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
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