If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Olaf Schneewind, Professor in Molecular Genetics & Cell Biology and Chair of the Committee on Microbiology

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. University of Chicago researcher John Alverdy, M.D., has discovered a way to keep bacteria from communicating, which may help save surgical patients from dying of infection. Copyright 2005 The University of Chicago.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Pandemic is a scary word. It summons images of the 1918 global influenza pandemic, which claimed perhaps 60 million lives and continues to shape our responses to influenza today.But in light of the new swine flu reported in Mexico and in parts of this country, we should remember that a pandemic can take many different forms, some...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. New research led by University of Chicago Professor Olaf Schneewind on the mechanisms that bacteria use to cause human disease may help produce new therapeutics. Copyright 2005 The University of Chicago.