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Scientists discover a bacterial defense so strange they thought it was broken

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SignalsMonitor is following this as a conflict story. ScienceDaily Health and ScienceDaily Top News are the outlets attached to this story. The first report grouped here was at 31 Oct 2026, 10:38 UTC. 2 material updates are listed in the timeline. The headline in use is “Scientists discover a bacterial defense so strange they thought it was broken”. This note is SignalsMonitor's own briefing, not the publisher's article.

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Scientists have discovered a bizarre bacterial defense system that works almost completely backward from anything seen before. Unlike typical bacterial immune systems that keep a deadly toxin under control until a virus attacks, this unusual mechanism waits until an infection begins before producing the DNA that switches on its lethal…

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