Sweet Talking: Artificial Vesicles And Bacterial Cells Communicate By Way Of Sugar Components
Monday, June 9, 2008 - 22:35
in Biology & Nature
For an organism to develop and function, the individual cells must exchange information, or communicate, with each other. Is it possible to learn their language and "talk to" the cells? Yes it is: Researchers have been able to facilitate a conversation between bacterial cells and artificial polymer vesicles by way of sugar groups on the vesicle surface.