Molecular Biosciences | LaMontagne Center for Infectious Diseases

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Jekyll and Hyde Bacteria

March 23, 2016 • by Marc Airhart

What do you do when the bacteria you study that's deadly in the real world acts all mild and gentle in the lab?

Microscope image of pink bacteria with hair-like and corkscrew-like structures

Trapping a Bacterium in a Laser Beam Aids Study of Biofilms

May 6, 2014 • by Steven E. Franklin

Biofilms are responsible for most chronic infections and are notoriously resilient and hard to treat.

Two-channel fluorescence image of a stamped pattern of P. aeruginosa in an isotropic background of S. aureus at t = 6 h, after the initial pattern has developed into a localized cluster.