{"id":30975,"date":"2026-10-26T19:41:54","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T19:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/blog\/2026\/10\/26\/strangest-of-its-kind-scientists-uncover-a-bizarre-bacterial-self-destruct-switch\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T19:41:54","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T19:41:54","slug":"strangest-of-its-kind-scientists-uncover-a-bizarre-bacterial-self-destruct-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/blog\/2026\/10\/26\/strangest-of-its-kind-scientists-uncover-a-bizarre-bacterial-self-destruct-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cStrangest of Its Kind\u201d: Scientists Uncover a Bizarre Bacterial Self-Destruct Switch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/strangest-of-its-kind-scientists-uncover-a-bizarre-bacterial-self-destruct-switch\/\" title=\"\u201cStrangest of Its Kind\u201d: Scientists Uncover a Bizarre Bacterial Self-Destruct Switch\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"777\" height=\"518\" src=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/images\/Microscopic-Biomedical-Bacteria-Structure-777x518.jpg\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"Microscopic Biomedical Bacteria Structure\" \/><\/a>An unusual bacterial defense uses DNA to switch on toxin production, suggesting a new way to build molecular tools that control genes. nb An infected bacterium can protect its neighbors by destroying itself before the virus inside it has a chance to multiply. Bacterial immune systems called retrons trigger this sacrifice when they detect particular [&#8230;]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An unusual bacterial defense uses DNA to switch on toxin production, suggesting a new way to build molecular tools that control genes. nb An infected bacterium can protect its neighbors by destroying itself before the virus inside it has a chance to multiply. Bacterial immune systems called retrons trigger this sacrifice when they detect particular &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/blog\/2026\/10\/26\/strangest-of-its-kind-scientists-uncover-a-bizarre-bacterial-self-destruct-switch\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;\u201cStrangest of Its Kind\u201d: Scientists Uncover a Bizarre Bacterial Self-Destruct Switch&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}