24 September 2024
Travelling Bug
Resident in our mouths, the bacterium Fusobacterium nucleatum is implicated in colorectal cancer. This study shows how vesicles – sacs of cell contents – released from the bacterium fuse with colorectal cancer cells, presenting a mechanism for getting from the mouth to the gut cells, or indeed a means of disseminating microbiota around the body generally
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- Image from work by Xin Zheng and Tao Gong, and colleagues
- State Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases, National Center for Stomatology, and National Clinical Research Center for Oral Diseases, West China Hospital of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
- Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
- Published in Science Advances, September 2024
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