Bacteria With A Built-in Thermometer: How Bacteria Measure Temperature And Thereby Control Infection
Tuesday, May 26, 2009 - 11:21
in Health & Medicine
Bacteria are experts at adaptation: as soon as they have infected an organism, they adapt their metabolism to that of their host and produce substances which protect them from the body's immune defenses. How they do this is still unknown in the case of many types of bacteria.