bacterium

Instead of preventing an existing toxin from causing harm, it helps turn on toxin production only when the bacterium detects a threat.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026

Among these defenses are retrons, molecular systems that can detect certain viral infections and trigger the infected bacterium to destroy itself.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026

The bacterium that causes it still exists in parts of Africa and Asia, including Siberia.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

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

A bacterium uses roughly a million bits of information—which is about 100 printed pages.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

CRISPR-Cas is best known for its role in modern gene-editing technologies, but bacteria originally evolved these systems as defenses against viruses.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026

Their work helped establish an important connection between toxin-producing gut bacteria, chronic inflammation, and colorectal cancer.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026

This is particularly important because acids produced by oral bacteria can gradually erode tooth enamel, increasing the risk of cavities.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026

Inulin is classified as a prebiotic because it nourishes certain beneficial gut bacteria rather than directly supplying living microorganisms, as probiotics do.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 28, 2026

If sugar was sugar was sugar—if the metabolism of lactose was no different from that of glucose—then one might have expected bacteria fed on the glucose/lactose mix to exhibit the same smooth arc of growth.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee