Defense mechanism against bacteria and fungi deciphered

Friday, January 21, 2011 - 13:31 in Biology & Nature

Under standard laboratory conditions, the human beta-defensin 1 (hBD-1), a human antibiotic naturally produced in the body, had always shown only little activity against microbes. Nevertheless the...

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