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Researchers suspected that another molecule was helping the toxin reach its target, but repeated attempts to identify it had failed.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026

For nearly two decades, scientists have known that a common gut bacterium can produce a toxin that damages the colon and helps drive the formation of tumors.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026

The toxin appears to be an exceptionally small protein that inserts itself into the bacterium's surrounding cell membrane.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026

"It's almost the mirror-image version of how we traditionally view retrons, because the DNA switches on toxin production instead of inhibiting an already-produced toxin," Zhang says.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026

The toxin does the deed insidiously, indirectly, by inhibiting an enzyme essential to glycoprotein metabolism.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

Another possibility involves the retron's unusually small but powerful toxins.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026

Nagarajan said they have had positive results: "We've seen up to 20% degradation in terms of toxins and we've also seen a lot of the algal cells being destroyed because of the effect of cavitation."

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

While the team ultimately failed to achieve that universal moonshot goal, the broader experiment still managed to produce 17 working proteins that successfully bound to four of the targeted individual toxins.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

But in times of heat stress, algae can produce toxins, forcing their hosts to expel them.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

She got one blood transfusion after another because her kidneys could no longer filter the toxins from her blood, leaving her nauseated from the poison of her own body.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot