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Colorectal cancer is rising among young adults — could this diet be to blame?
NY Post via Yahoo News· 12 hours agoThe OSU researchers lay blame on Fusobacterium, a bacteria commonly found in the mouth that is...
Column: Anatomy of a smear — Fauci faces the House GOP's clown show about COVID
LA Times via Yahoo News· 3 hours agoThe House GOP attacks Anthony Fauci, one of America's most accomplished public health officials,...
How eating less salt can improve microbiome health
Washington Post· 17 hours agoIn studies, scientists have discovered that consuming high levels of sodium can suppress some of the beneficial microbes that live in our guts. One recent study found that ...
Microbes in woman's gut brew alcohol, making her drunk without drinking
Boing Boing· 16 hours agoOver two years, a 50-year-old woman in Toronto showed up at a hospital emergency room seemingly drunk, slurring her words, and stinking of booze. "In recent years, she had stopped drinking altogether ...
The viral frontier: Nasa told ‘act now’ to tackle pathogens in space
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 4 hours agoIn a quiet pocket of rural Arizona, hundreds of people die after suffering near-instantaneous blood...
Scientists Find Plastic-Eating Fungus in Great Pacific Garbage Patch
The Inertia via Yahoo News· 15 hours agoA marine microbe found in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is capable of breaking down the plastic...
These three New Jersey beaches under water quality advisories over fecal bacteria
Gannett via AOL· 6 days agoEach of the three beaches had high levels of enterococci bacteria, a pathogen common in the feces...
What Britain’s famed Roman Baths could teach us about microbes
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 4 days agoThe numerous ruins dating to the Roman Empire tell us a lot about the Roman’s military conquests,...
Researchers find a tiny organism has the power to reduce a persistent greenhouse gas in farm fields
WJXT Jacksonville· 6 days agoNow some researchers think they’ve found a bacteria that can help. Writing in this week's Nature,...
Microbes ‘sieve’ ions on their surface to start the nitrogen cycle
Nature· 7 days agoHow marine archaea microorganisms capture ammomium ions.
