Author: Ryan Cook, Research Scientist, Bioscience, Quadram Institute

SewCreamStudio/Shutterstock.com The gut bacterium Bacteroides fragilis has long presented researchers with a paradox. It has been associated with colorectal cancer, yet it also lives quite happily in most healthy people. A new study from a Danish research team offers a possible clue. When they looked beyond the bacterium itself and into its genome, they found […]