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A team led by Professor Kazuhiro Maeshima of the National Institute of Genetics (ROIS) and SOKENDAI in Japan has developed a ...

Immune cells in the skin ‘cauterize’ open wounds and create ‘band-aids’ to prevent the spread of harmful bacteria and foreign molecules from injury sites, finds a study 1 in mice.

Collectively, these antimicrobial properties can remove bacterial infections when the MSCs are delivered in a therapeutic setting. Regardless of the positive therapeutic potential of MSCs for a ...

This system involves labeling bacteria with short DNA sequences in mouse models, enabling researchers to trace the movement of Klebsiella pneumoniae throughout the body. The findings of this study ...

View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. When Kuru joined the lab, VanNieuwenhze was looking for ways to label bacterial cell walls to track cell growth. Intrigued by the challenge, Kuru ...

What Is Quorum Sensing? Individual bacteria use quorum sensing to detect and respond to changes in cell density as a coordinated group. For example, the first reported evidence of quorum sensing was ...

These findings may help us understand the origins of the complex structures observed in many naturally occurring communities of bacteria. To shed light on the mechanism behind this intricate pattern ...