Princeton: Triggering Bacteria in the Service of Medicine
June 26, 2020
June 26, 2020
PRINCETON, New Jersey, June 26 -- Princeton University issued the following news release:
Bacteria, as it turns out, are a lot like us. They get complacent in relaxed, non-threatening environments. And when they're relaxed, they don't produce defenses that guard against things that want to kill them, like competing organisms or microbial predators.
But when threatened, bacteria produce a veritable army of molecular defenses. Drilling down into these defenses a . . .
Bacteria, as it turns out, are a lot like us. They get complacent in relaxed, non-threatening environments. And when they're relaxed, they don't produce defenses that guard against things that want to kill them, like competing organisms or microbial predators.
But when threatened, bacteria produce a veritable army of molecular defenses. Drilling down into these defenses a . . .