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bacteria

[bak-teer-ee-uh] / bækˈtɪər i ə /
NOUN
microorganisms
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At the same time, antibody responses to encapsulated bacteria gradually decreased as diagnosis approached.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026

This combination creates a deceptive target for the immune system, making the particles resemble unusually large bacteria that cannot be broken down.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026

Both conditions begin with the same types of bacteria found in the mouth, yet they respond very differently to treatment.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026

Abbott has been involved in years of litigation over its management of a baby-formula facility where deadly bacteria was suspected of causing infant deaths, and has agreed to pay several multimillion-dollar settlements.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

From bacteria to elephants—from red-eyed flies to blue-blooded princes—biological information flowed through living systems in a systematic, archetypal manner: DNA provided instructions to build RNA.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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

The bacterium that causes the plague, Yersinia pestis, found among rodents such as marmots in the area.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 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

Because of that, scientists had often assumed that the earliest versions of the bacterium probably could not trigger severe outbreaks.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 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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