Biofilm Bacteria Protected by a Form of DNA Resistant to Current Treatments
Biofilm Bacteria Protected by a Form of DNA Resistant to Current Treatments https://pediatricsnationwide.org/wp-content/themes/corpus/images/empty/thumbnail.jpg 150 150 Lauren Bakaletz, PhD and Steve Goodman, PhD https://pediatricsnationwide.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/100318ds1794_Goodman-crop.jpgResearchers from Nationwide Children’s Hospital identify a structural component of the bacterial biofilm matrix in a novel discovery published in Cell that has strong implications as to how biofilms resist current treatments and how to create new therapeutics that will be effective. Biofilms are communities of bacteria that are protected by an extracellular matrix…