Mastodawn

#nopanic #donotpanic a #bacterium has become #smart at #evolution #randomize #dna game: it flags certain areas of it's #dna as "please envolve rapidly" #who #Acinetobacter #baumannii #biology

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Spaceflight 🚀Mar 4

"I’m surprised to see people get so wildly excited about a possible #bacterium 🦠 on #Mars 🔴 when our own planet is crawling with undiscovered species"

George Schaller, #mammalogist, #biologist, #conservationist and #author https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mars

Mars - Wikiquote

indianflash Feb 24

5,000-Year-Old #Ice #Cave #Bacterium That Resists Modern #Antibiotics
https://indianf.com/antibiotics-ancient-bacterium-ice-cave-antibiotic-resistance/

5,000-Year-Old Ice Cave Bacterium That Resists Modern Antibiotics

Scientists discovered a 5,000-year-old bacterium in a Romanian ice cave that resists modern antibiotics, posing both risks and medical opportunities

Indian Flash

Scientific Frontline Feb 20

A novel oral vaccine utilizing a modified, highly attenuated strain of the #bacterium #Listeria monocytogenes to prime the immune system within the gastrointestinal tract and generate a targeted anti-tumor response.
#Immunology #Oncology #Microbiology #Cancer #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/02/imgy02202602.html

New Oral Vaccine Strategy Could Help Combat Colorectal Cancer

Colorectal cancer is among the most dangerous and deadly cancers worldwide.

Scientific Frontline Feb 19

The common gut #bacterium Bacteroides fragilis is significantly more likely to be infected with specific viruses, known as bacteriophages, in patients diagnosed with #colorectal #cancer
#Oncology #Microbiology #Gastroenterology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/02/ingy02192601.html

Newly discovered virus linked to colorectal cancer

Colorectal cancer is one of the most common types of cancer in the Western world

Scientific Frontline Dec 25

#Escherichia albertii, initially identified as Hafnia alvei, by the commercial identification biochemical strip, API 20E, was isolated from an infant with diarrhea in Bangladesh in 1989. However, this #bacterium was later renamed as a novel species, E. albertii
#Microbiology #Veterinary #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2025/12/mcb12252501.html