Illinois researchers combined microbiology with microfluidic device technology to find that when antibiotics are delivered by flowing fluids, as would be the case in the body, they are more effective ...
Bacteria like E. coli have hair-like protrusions known as fimbriae with a sticky protein on the tip. This adhesive protein is called FimH and binds in an unusual way to a sugar molecule present on the ...
In infectious disease research, disrupting bacterial communication is widely considered beneficial. A study by UNIGE and NTU Singapore shows this is not always true.