Researchers made a “huge breakthrough” when they did an experiment “purely out of curiosity” which solves “a decades-long ...

Some early-onset colorectal cancers may be caused by exposure to a bacterial toxin within the first 10 years of life, according to a study published April 23 in Nature. An international research team, ...

Researchers might have just stumbled upon a potential answer to why younger adults are getting more colorectal cancer—without ...

DNA is often seen as the blueprint of life—carrying the code to govern the development and traits of an organism—but “there ...

Scientists have a new clue in the mystery of why younger people are getting more colon cancer. It may have to do with a toxin ...

Research reveals a bacterial toxin, colibactin, as a key factor in increased early-onset colorectal cancer, highlighting DNA ...

A new study conducted by researchers from UC San Diego explored how exposure to a specific bacteria in childhood could be ...

A few years ago, the advent of technology known as CRISPR was a major breakthrough in the scientific world. Developed from a ...

One researchers explained that bacteria do a really, really good job of keeping the sequence you want and the sequence that you get.

In an effort to explain a modern medical mystery, an international team of researchers led by the University of California San Diego has identified a potential microbial culprit behind the alarming ...

Antibiotic resistance is a serious threat to public health. When antibiotics don't work, we risk not being able to treat many types of infections and people who would previously have been cured, can ...

Exposure to colibactin in early childhood imprints a distinct genetic signature on the DNA of colon cells that can increase the risk of colorectal cancer.