When staph bacteria meet skin, they hang on for dear life and won't let go. The ties that bind staph and human skin, as it turns out, shape one of the strongest bonds in biology. Unfortunately for us, ...

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Some microbes can be quite clingy. Staphylococcus aureus, a bacterial species responsible for staph infections, latches onto human skin with one of the strongest biological bonds ever recorded, ...

The strain of staph was discovered in the 1960s, with its emergence in athletics coming in earnest in the 2000s. Ominously called the "flesh-eating disease" by some, MRSA is sometimes dismissed, ...