'Programmable' Antibiotic Harnesses An Enzyme to Attack Drug-Resistant Microbes (IMAGE)

Rockefeller University

'Programmable' Antibiotic Harnesses An Enzyme to Attack Drug-Resistant Microbes

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Rockefeller University researchers colonized mouse skin with a mix of bacterial cells, some resistant to the antibiotic kanamycin. They made the resistant cells glow (left) and treated the mix with an enzyme that targeted and killed off most resistant cells (right).

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Marraffini Lab and Fischetti Lab / Nature Biotechnology

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