The following excerpt is from an article and podcast by Jorge Salazar, published August 12, 2014 on the TACC website:
Bacteria inside your mouth drastically change how they act when you're diseased, according to research using supercomputers at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC). Scientists say these surprising findings might lead to better ways to prevent or even reverse the gum disease periodontitis, diabetes, and Crohn's disease.
Marvin Whiteley, professor of molecular biosciences and director of the Center for Infectious Disease at The University of Texas at Austin, led the study published in April 2014 in the journal mBio.
"What we were trying to figure out," said Whiteley, "is how do these bacteria act when you're healthy, and how do they act when they're in a diseased state. The really big finding is that they do act very differently."
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