Finding a biorhythm motor much like an online social network, scientists have identified the bacterial protein VpsT as the master structural gene in Vibrio, the cause of cholera and other enteric diseases. This discovery, now published in the journal Science, provides a major tool to combat enteric disease. For decades, it has been observed that antiseptic engage in biofilm formation in nature and the lab. Like the online social network Facebook, free-swimming plague ditch the solitary style of living to form a biofilm community, but only after they've signaled their advised to do so to others...

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