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2023.02.06
Our intestine contains hundreds of billions of bacteria: this is the gut microbiota. Ilya Mechnikov had proposed that an imbalance between the different...
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2024.02.07
Bacteria have a fundamental need for certain rare nutrients such as metals, vitamins and certain sugars. Without these nutrients, the bacterium is deficient...
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2020.02.13
When a bacterium invades a host, it seeks to proliferate by multiplying. Bacterial cell division is coordinated by several mechanisms including the synthesis...