Bullvalene

New shape-shifting antibiotics could fight deadly infections

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Tuesday, April 4, 2023
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Antibiotics are essential and effective, but in recent years overuse has led to some bacteria developing resistance to them.

Key Points: 
  • Antibiotics are essential and effective, but in recent years overuse has led to some bacteria developing resistance to them.
  • The infections are so difficult to treat, the World Health Organization deemed antibiotic resistance a top 10 global public health threat.
  • Moses came up with the idea of shape-shifting antibiotics while observing tanks in military training exercises.
  • The researchers gave the drug to VRE-infected wax moth larvae, which are commonly used to test antibiotics.