For 50 years scientists have been unsure how the bacteria that gives humans cholera manages to resist one of our basic innate immune responses.

The superbugs have met their match.

HAMILTON, N.J., April 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Medical Diagnostic Laboratories, L.L.C.

CHAPEL HILL, N.C., March 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Cempra Inc.

Scientists from the Schepens Eye Research Institute, a subsidiary of Mass. Eye and Ear and affiliate of Harvard Medical School, have found for the first time that a bacterial pathogen can literally mow down protective molecules, known as mucins, on mucus membranes to enter and infect a part of the body.