Researchers target protein that protects bacteria's DNA 'recipes'
Tuesday, August 21, 2018 - 12:00
in Health & Medicine
Bacteria cause many serious illnesses, from food poisoning to pneumonia. The challenge for scientists is that disease-causing bacteria are extraordinarily resilient. For example, when bacteria like Escherichia coli (E. coli) undergo starvation, they massively reorganize their bacterial DNA, allowing them to survive stressful conditions.