As you may be aware, the presence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria already exist. Some of them are even resistant to some of the stronger antibiotics – which means they have become a real threat to the human race. Antibiotics have been a great help, but they are also creating some real monsters at the same time.
The novel approach come from Eduard Babiychuk and Annette Draeger, working at the Institute of Anatomy, at the University of Bern. They used artificial nanoparticles that resemble "liposomes," to make a substance similar to the membrane found in cells.
These nano-particles are attractive bait to bacteria, and they attack them. They attack themselves to the liposomes and are rendered defenseless, and are then destroyed by the body's defenses.
A strong advantage of this system is that it does not actively attack the bacteria. This prevents any kind of defenses being built up by the bacteria, so there would never be a problem with antibiotic resistance. It has been tested on mice, and successfully treated fatal septicemia without requiring any antibiotics.
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Source: http://phys.org/news/2014-11-alternative-antibiotics.html
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