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19 2011 Bacteria Use Batman-Like Grappling Hooks To ‘Slingshot’ On SurfacesOriginally posted in Cystic Fibrosis News From Medical News Today Bacteria use various appendages to move across surfaces prior to forming multicellular bacterial biofilms. Some species display a particularly jerky form of movement known as “twitching” motility, which is made possible by hairlike structures on their surface called type IV pili, or TFP…
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19 2011 News From The Journal Of Clinical Investigation: July 18, 2011Originally posted in Cystic Fibrosis News From Medical News Today ONCOLOGY: Platinum-based drugs: double trouble for tumors One of the reasons that tumors are able to grow rapidly is that they actively prevent immune cells from generating effective antitumor immune responses. Researchers are developing approaches to combat the mechanisms used by tumors to inhibit immune responses, but such approaches don’t kill tumor cells directly…
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