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Queensland researchers have discovered that a mutation allows some E. coli bacteria to cause severe disease in people while other bacteria are harmless, a finding that could help to combat antibiotic ...

Our immune systems can often eliminate bacterial infections, but sometimes those bacteria are very tough and persistent, and they establish more long-term, chronic infections. Researchers have now ...

Researchers have discovered that a mutation in the cellulose making machinery of E. coli bacteria allows them to cause severe disease in people -- 'good' bacteria make cellulose and 'bad' bacteria can ...

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While it is well-known that age, smoking, oral bacteria and genetic mutations can individually cause stomach cancer, a recent study has found that when they occur together in one person, ...

Traditional biochemical methods of studying human gene mutations are often laborious and costly. Now bioengineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a new simple approach to ...