Synthetic Biology Is Bearing Fruit: Blockers Against Blockers
Friday, August 15, 2008 - 17:21
in Biology & Nature
Synthetic Biology is bearing fruit: the tuberculosis pathogen can be fooled by a widely used food additive. The WHO records around nine million new cases of the disease each year, and about 50 million people are infected with a strain of Mycobacterium tuberculosis that is resistant to the antibiotics Isoniazid and Rifampicin.