New plastic-like materials may say 'shhhh' to hush disease-causing microbes

Wednesday, May 12, 2010 - 22:30 in Biology & Nature

Scientists are silencing the biochemical conversations that disease-causing bacteria use to marshal their forces and cause infections. They have used specially designed plastic-like materials to soak up the substances that bacteria produce and pass to one another as messages.

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