For nearly two decades, scientists have known that a common gut bacterium can produce a toxin that damages the colon and helps drive the formation of tumors. What they could not explain was how the toxin first attaches to intestinal cells and begins its attack. Now, researchers have uncovered that missing step, revealing a surprising
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A colon protein leads to the toxin of a bacterium related to colon cancer, and in mice a bait blocks it The article Found the door from which a bacterium lets in colon cancer is taken from Future Next.