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Nature Chemical Biology 4, 718 - 719 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nchembio1208-718
Acting together, bacterial clusters initiate coagulation
Jeffrey T. Borenstein1
- Jeffrey T. Borenstein is the Director of the Biomedical Engineering Center at Draper Laboratory, 555 Technology Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA. e-mail: jborenstein@draper.com
Abstract
Bacterial infections have long been associated with coagulation, but the mechanism is not well understood. New insights into bacterial spatial localization are shedding light on how bacterial clusters can trigger coagulation in a process known as 'quorum acting'.
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