{"id":88296,"date":"2019-03-02T00:02:45","date_gmt":"2019-03-02T08:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/new-species-of-golden-death-bacterium-digests-parasitic-worms-from-the-inside-out"},"modified":"2019-03-02T00:02:45","modified_gmt":"2019-03-02T08:02:45","slug":"new-species-of-golden-death-bacterium-digests-parasitic-worms-from-the-inside-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/new-species-of-golden-death-bacterium-digests-parasitic-worms-from-the-inside-out","title":{"rendered":"New species of \u2018golden death\u2019 bacterium digests parasitic worms from the inside out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-species-of-golden-death-bacterium-digests-parasitic-worms-from-the-inside-out.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Zombie Bacteria that sounds like a Netflix Series\u2026not really, but a bacteria that devours roundworms has been found. #karma A new species of bacterium <i><i>Chryseobacterium<\/i> nematophagum<\/i>, has been found to digest its hosts\u2014roundworm parasites\u2014from the inside out. The findings, which are presented in the open access journal <i>BMC Biology<\/i>, suggest that the bacteria may potentially be used in future, to control roundworm infections in animals, plants, and, potentially, humans.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A new species of bacterium, <i><i>Chryseobacterium<\/i> nematophagum<\/i>, has been found to digest its hosts\u2014roundworm parasites\u2014from the inside out. The findings, which are presented in the open access journal <i>BMC Biology<\/i>, suggest that the bacteria may potentially be used in future, to control roundworm infections in animals, plants, and, potentially, humans.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-02-species-golden-death-bacterium-digests.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019&#45;02-species-golden-death-bacterium-digests.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zombie Bacteria that sounds like a Netflix Series\u2026not really, but a bacteria that devours roundworms has been found. #karma A new species of bacterium Chryseobacterium nematophagum, has been found to digest its hosts\u2014roundworm parasites\u2014from the inside out. The findings, which are presented in the open access journal BMC Biology, suggest that the bacteria may potentially [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":507,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/507"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}