bacteria

Plus, an infected deer tick must keep its harpoon-like feeding tube in the bloodstream for 36 to 48 hours to transmit the bacteria that causes Lyme disease.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

Chains of magnetic particles inside the cells allow the bacteria to orient themselves with Earth's magnetic field, helping them swim toward the depth of water they prefer.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026

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

The Earth had been saved by bacteria, but Concrete’s residents didn’t hear the good news.

From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow

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

Instead, the disease appears to have resurfaced in different parts of Europe over hundreds of years, potentially creating several new reservoirs where the bacterium could persist.

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

That appears to have been possible even before the bacterium developed the efficient flea-based transmission associated with later bubonic plague.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026

Most important, very little protein entered the bacterium.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson