Team finds link between stomach-cancer bug and cancer-promoting factor

Thursday, January 7, 2010 - 01:14 in Health & Medicine

Researchers report that Helicobacter pylori, the only bacterium known to survive in the harsh environment of the human stomach, directly activates an enzyme in host cells that has been associated with several types of cancer, including gastric cancer...

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