Scientists call them toxins. But these bacterial proteins don't poison us, at least not directly.
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 26, 2015
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Inflammation is a normal and often beneficial response to injury or infection. The swelling, heat and even pain are the body's attempts to protect its soft tissue, remove offending objects, substances or microbes and initiate ...
Biochemistry
Jan 7, 2015
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(Phys.org) —We face an urgent global health problem because scientists are not developing new antibiotics as fast as bacteria are developing antibiotic resistance.
Biochemistry
Sep 30, 2014
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Until now, biofilms—colonies of microbes like bacteria that grow together in a matrix produced by the cells themselves—have been poorly understood. Yet, they can be costly and dangerous. Infections related to hip- and ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 11, 2014
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Recurrent infection is a common feature of persistent viral diseases. It includes episodes of high viral production interspersed by periods of relative quiescence. These quiescent or silent stages are hard to study with experimental ...
Mathematics
May 31, 2013
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