Ancient bacteria offer new line of attack on CF
Tuesday, December 16, 2008 - 13:35
in Health & Medicine
MIT researchers have found that the pigments responsible for the blue-green stain of the mucus of cystic fibrosis patients are signaling molecules that allow large clusters of the opportunistic infection agent to organize themselves into structured communities.
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