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Harvard's 'Slipperiest Substance' Could Help Fight Bacteria

Posted August 09, 2012 8:42 AM

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Bacteria are a nasty bunch, creating infections from the common to the horrific. Not only that, but they lurk pretty much everywhere. Now they may have met their match in a film created by Harvard scientists that is so slippery, it fools bacteria into thinking they can't attach there and grow. Major score for science!

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08/09/2012 9:14 AM

Time to mutate again....

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08/10/2012 6:49 PM

Don't put in the water; another of today's articles suggests increasing the bacteria.

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