bacterium
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The team reconstructed 26 genomes of Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that causes plague, from human remains recovered at 11 archaeological sites in Estonia, Russia, England, the Netherlands, and Switzerland.
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
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
Coauthor Associate Professor Debnath Ghosal from The University of Melbourne says directly capturing an interaction between an Asgard archaeon and a bacterium is particularly significant.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 3, 2026
Grown on either sugar alone, the bacterium begins to divide rapidly, doubling in number every twenty minutes or so.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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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
Some studies reported shifts in beneficial bacteria along with higher production of short-chain fatty acids such as acetate, propionate, and butyrate.
From Science Daily ● 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
The constant probing of the president's wound, insertions of tubes, and surgical incisions created plenty of opportunities for bacteria to enter Garfield's body.
From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow
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