Grasping bacterial 'friending' paves the way to disrupt biofilm creation

Saturday, February 13, 2010 - 16:00 in Biology & Nature

Finding a biological mechanism much like an online social network, scientists have identified the bacterial protein VpsT as the master regulator in Vibrio, the cause of cholera and other enteric diseases. This discovery, now published in the journal Science, provides a major tool to combat enteric disease...

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