‘Programmable’ antibiotic harnesses an enzyme to attack drug-resistant microbes

Sunday, October 5, 2014 - 19:31 in Biology & Nature

By co-opting a system bacteria normally use to defend themselves, researchers targeted and killed off colonies of the antibiotic resistant Staph cells on mouse skin. The treatment left behind the drug-susceptible microbes. More »

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