Boosting 'Mussel' Power: New Technique For Making Key Marine Mus...

Nanotubes could help study retrovirus transmission between human...
(DOE/Sandia National Laboratories) Naturally occurring nanotubes may serve as tunnels that protect retroviruses and bacteria as they infect healthy...

First Evidence That Bacteria Get 'Touchy-feely' About Dangerous ...
Researchers report for the first time that bacteria use a sense of touch in deciding where to form biofilms. Those colonies of microbes grow on...

Bacteria-resistant Films Created: Microbe Adhesion Depends On Su...
Having found that whether bacteria stick to surfaces depends partly on how stiff those surfaces are, MIT engineers have created ultrathin films made...

MIT crafts bacteria-resistant films
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Having found that whether bacteria stick to surfaces depends partly on how stiff those surfaces are, MIT...

Scientists discover why plague is so lethal
(Society for General Microbiology) Bacteria that cause the bubonic plague may be more virulent than their close relatives because of a single genetic...