A new study has shown that a uterine bacterium is one cause of endometriosis and that preventing the infection could prevent development of the pathology, in which tissue similar to the lining of the uterus grows in the abdominal cavity.

Researchers at Duke University have developed a set of methods to separate out microbial contamination from microbiome species that were part of tumors and used those methods to gain new insights into tumor microbiomes.