Something that we always thought we understood, but now we really do: household bleach kills bacteria by unfolding certain proteins in the cell and causing them to irreversibly aggregate—like a hard-boiled egg—according to research published by J. Winter et al. Co-author Ursula Jakob explains the research to Ira Flatow.
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