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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Borenstein, J. Acting together, bacterial clusters initiate coagulation. Nat Chem Biol 4, 718–719 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchembio1208-718
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