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The cyanobacteria was discovered last week along Lady Bird Lake, according to Austin's Watershed Protection Department.

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

Produced by certain strains of Escherichia coli that reside in the colon and rectum, colibactin is a toxin capable of ...

In an effort to explain a modern medical mystery, an international team of researchers led by the University of California ...