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Frontal attack or stealth? How subverting the immune system shapes the arms race between bacteria and hosts
Why is it that Mycobacterium tuberculosis can cause tuberculosis with as little as 10 cells, whereas Vibrio cholerae requires the host to ingest up to tens of millions of cells to cause cholera? This is the ...
Feb 27, 2012 |
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'Bacterial dirigibles' emerge as next-generation disease fighters
Scientists today reported development of bacteria that serve as mobile pharmaceutical factories, both producing disease-fighting substances and delivering the potentially life-saving cargo to diseased areas of the body. They ...
Mar 29, 2011 |
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Study details bacterial communication
(PhysOrg.com) -- If you think your family talks too loud at times, just consider what the noise level would be if you could hear what the bacteria around you are saying.
Jan 26, 2011 |
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Backstabbing bacteria: A new treatment for infection?
Selfish bacterial cells that act in their own interests and do not cooperate with their infection-causing colleagues can actually reduce the severity of infection.
Sep 06, 2010 |
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One Can Act Without Group Support; Even in the Bacterial World
(PhysOrg.com) -- A single bacterium can act alone, performing the same kinds of actions that a group normally does. The behavior of that bacterium can be manipulated at the cellular level. That’s the intriguing ...
Dec 08, 2009 |
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Stopping MRSA before it becomes dangerous is possible, researchers find
Most scientists believe that staph infections are caused by many bacterial cells that signal each other to emit toxins. The signaling process is called quorum sensing because many bacteria must be present ...
Dec 03, 2009 |
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Communication breakdown: New strategy may be valid alternative to traditional antibiotics
Certainly there is strength in numbers, but only if those numbers can effectively communicate with one another. Now, a new study finds that administration of a novel small molecule which effectively disrupts a key bacterial ...
Jul 30, 2009 |
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Finding the constant in bacterial communication
The Rosetta Stone of bacterial communication may have been found.
Jul 07, 2009 |
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Nature study demonstrates that bacterial clotting depends on clustering
Bacteria can directly cause human blood and plasma to clot—a process that was previously thought to have been lost during the course of vertebrate evolution, according to new research at the University of Chicago, National ...
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Nov 02, 2008 |
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When following the leader can lead into the jaws of death
For animals that live in social groups, and that includes humans, blindly following a leader could place them in danger. To avoid this, animals have developed simple but effective behaviour to follow where ...
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May 12, 2008 |
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