Nanotechnology Boosts War On Superbugs

Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 07:29 in Health & Medicine

Scientists are using nanotechnology to investigate the workings of vancomycin, one of the few antibiotics that can be used to combat increasingly resistant infections such as MRSA. The researchers developed ultra-sensitive probes capable of providing new insight into how antibiotics work, paving the way for the development of more effective new drugs.

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