{"id":79967,"date":"2026-10-19T11:29:36","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T18:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=79967"},"modified":"2026-10-20T11:41:37","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T18:41:37","slug":"2026-10-science-botox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/2026-10-science-botox\/","title":{"rendered":"Science: How scientists domesticated a killer bacterium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NAU professor Paul Keim&#8217;s new analysis of more than 1,000 bacterial genomes is an extraordinary piece of microbiological detective work. Detailed in a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/doi\/epub\/10.1073\/pnas.2605155123\">paper<\/a> published yesterday in the <em>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/em> (<em>PNAS<\/em>), the study led by Keim shows how scientists unwittingly triggered the evolution of a dangerous bacterium into one with major medical and commercial advantages.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/article\/how-scientists-domesticated-killer-bacterium\">Read more in Science.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/2026-10-science-botox\/\">NAU professor Paul Keim&#8217;s new analysis of more than 1,000 bacterial genomes is an extraordinary piece of microbiological detective work. Detailed in a new paper published yesterday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), the study led by Keim shows how scientists unwittingly triggered the evolution of a dangerous bacterium into one&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2880,"featured_media":79980,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1831],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nau-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2880"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79968,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79967\/revisions\/79968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}