Nature study demonstrates that bacterial clotting depends on clustering
Monday, November 3, 2008 - 09:42
in Biology & Nature
Bacteria can directly cause human blood and plasma to clot - a process that was previously thought to have been lost during the course of vertebrate evolution, according to new research at the University of Chicago, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and Institut Pasteur in Paris. Their findings were published online 2 November in Nature Chemical Biology...