How a toxin from the gut microbiome may help spark colorectal cancer – Harvard Gazette

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For years, a mysterious bacterial toxin lurking in the human gut was suspected of driving colorectal cancer. Now researchers in a pair of Harvard labs have caught the toxin in the act of damaging DNA and creating the very sorts of mutations long implicated in the disease.

The new study, published T…

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