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bacterium

[bak-teer-ee-uhm] / bækˈtɪər i əm /






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These three compounds come from a blood-dwelling bacterium and were shown to reduce both cellular damage and inflammation in laboratory-grown human skin cells.

From Science Daily

These species have an extra outer layer they use to control what gets in and out of a bacterium.

From BBC

He injected DNA from one type of bacterium into another, then watched as the two became the same.

From Los Angeles Times

That belief began to shift in 2016, when a bacterium discovered in a Japanese recycling plant was found to survive by consuming plastic waste.

From Science Daily

A new study in Nature highlights the potential of this compound, called CMX410, which targets a key enzyme in Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium that causes tuberculosis.

From Science Daily