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When dismantling bacterial biofilms, the first line of defense comes from within
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When dismantling bacterial biofilms, the first line of defense comes from within

by  Nationwide Children’s Hospital Graphical abstract. Credit: DOI: 10.1172/JCI140527 A team of researchers in the Center for Microbial Pathogenesis in the Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital recently characterized the anti-biofilm properties of HMGB1, a protein innate to eukaryotes and the immune systems of vertebrates, engineered modified molecules of the protein, and tested a therapeutic cocktail consisting of...