Researchers at the University of Minnesota have demonstrated a means of disrupting communication between pathogens that could pave the way to eliminating microbial resistance.
Mikael Elias, an associate professor of biochemistry, molecular biology and biophysics, says bacteria communicate through the secretion of chemicals. His lab has successfully used proteins to interfere with those transmissions.
“We have a blurrying device, if you will, that inhibits all of the behaviors that are regulated by this communication system, including the ability to infect plants and possibly animals and humans.”
Elias tells Brownfield that could have very broad implications.
