Scientists find a new approach for fighting bacteria in skin wounds

November 3, 2017November 3, 2017 Wound Care Advisor

Jitka Petrlova at Lund University, Sweden, together with Peter Bond’s team at the A*STAR Bioinformatics Institute, has discovered a strategy that the body uses to neutralize invading microbes. This finding is a critical development in fighting bacteria in skin wounds. Read more.

via research.a-star.edu.sg

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