Exposing Bacteria’s Vulnerabilities To Spur Wave Of New Drug Discoveries

A scientist slides on a pair of plastic 3-D glasses and an unearthly blue multi-armed creature — an image right out of a sci-fi horror flick — seems to leap out of the computer screen into the laboratory.But this is no movie director’s fantasy. The horror image is real.The eerie “creature” is from the deadly anthrax bacteria — specifically one of its proteins. [click link for full article]

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Filed under: Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses on November 2nd, 2007