Scientists seek to unwrap the sweet mystery of the sugar coat on bacteria
Scientists at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a quick and simple way to investigate the sugar coating that surrounds bacteria and plays a role in infection and immunity.... ...The sugars coating bacteria can change very quickly during the course of an infection, cloaking the bacteria from the immune system of their host. Previous techniques for studying the sugars were too slow t...COLLEGE STATION, October 26, 2004 Some Texas A&M University researchers examining ancient Egyptian mummies may have unwrapped literally some of the mysteries that embalmers used to preserve bodies more than 3,000 years ago.... ...Mahlon "Chuck" Kennicutt II, MoonKoo Kim and Yaorong Qian of Texas A&M's College of Geosciences, along with colleagues from the University of Alexandria, have dis...