{"id":303431,"date":"2017-04-19T09:58:28","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T13:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=c20233a7cdd73b85e74b16e316f31036"},"modified":"2017-04-19T09:58:28","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T13:58:28","slug":"new-study-explains-extraordinary-resilience-of-deadly-bacterium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=303431","title":{"rendered":"New study explains extraordinary resilience of deadly bacterium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the University of Maryland have identified how the pathogenic bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa uses tension-activated membrane channels to stop itself from swelling up and bursting when it is suddenly exposed to water. The study, which will be published April 19 in The Journal of General Physiology, helps explain how this bacterium\u2014a major cause of hospital-acquired infections\u2014persists in a variety of different environments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the University of Maryland have identified how the pathogenic bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa uses tension-activated membrane channels to stop itself from swelling up and bursting when it is suddenly exposed to water. The study, which will be published April 19 in The Journal of General Physiology, helps explain how this bacterium&mdash;a major cause of hospital-acquired infections&mdash;persists in a variety of different environments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-303431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=303431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303432,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303431\/revisions\/303432"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=303431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=303431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=303431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}