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The discovery that a toxin made by bacteria found in dirty water might help trigger ulcerative colitis could lead to new ...

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Researchers in the Blavatnik Institute at Harvard Medical School have just opened a new window into understanding the development of antibiotic resistance in bacteria.

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A toxin-secreting gut bacterium may fuel ulcerative colitis by killing protective immune cells that maintain intestinal homeostasis, according to a new study. The findings suggest potential for new ...

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The newly described microbe represents a world of parasitic, intercellular biodiversity only beginning to be revealed by ...

A leading education union boss says headteachers will be unable to fulfil the government's latest plan to teach the sciences separately at GCSE because of an overwhelming lack of specialist teachers.