bacterium

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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

Inside the gut of a caterpillar lives a worm, and inside the worm lurks a bioluminescent bacterium named Photorhabdus asymbiotica, which makes the caterpillar glow in the dark.

From Scientific American

Pablo Neruda’s teeth showed signs of Clostridium botulinum, a bacterium that produces a neurotoxin that paralyzes muscles and the nervous system and can eventually lead to death.

From Science Magazine

Because of similarities between those genes and genes in DNA databases, the researchers say those genes may have come from a bacterium found in the guts of fish that people ate.

From Science Magazine

Like the microbe found in Namibia, the new mangrove bacterium also has a huge sac—presumably of water—that takes up 73% of its total volume.

From Science Magazine