New plastic-like materials may say 'shhhh' to hush disease-causing microbes
Wednesday, May 12, 2010 - 11:21
in Physics & Chemistry
Scientists are reporting success in a first attempt to silence the biochemical conversations that disease-causing bacteria use to marshal their forces and cause infections. In a study in ACS' monthly journal, Biomacromolecules, they describe use of specially designed plastic-like materials to soak up the substances that bacteria produce and pass to one another as messages.