Pseudomonas aeruginosa: novel insights into how bacterium causes sickness
New research reveals how Pseudomonas aeruginosa delivers toxins via communication molecules to cause illness.
Browsing: Bacterial communication
A peek behind the paper – Dr Shabana on quorum quenching
Take a look behind the scenes of a recent Future Microbiology review as we ask the authors about quorum quenching and using nanoparticles as antibiotics.
Lysis vs lysogeny: phages tap into quorum-sensing as control mechanism
A bacteriophage, VP882, has been identified to use bacterial quorum-sensing as a method to control the lysis-lysogeny decision. This is the first time a virus has been shown to detect a bacterial molecule.