Pushing back against drug-resistant bugs
Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - 12:36
in Health & Medicine
Some pathogens can adapt to the presence of drugs that would normally be lethal, and such antibiotic-resistant microbes are now the scourge of hospitals worldwide. Discovering new antibiotics is a laborious process, but research from a team led by Yi Yan Yang of the A*STAR Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, Singapore, and James Hedrick of the IBM Almaden Research Center, United States, could breathe new life into existing drugs.