Upgraded Nanoscale Drills Kill Bacteria Directly and Revive Existing Antibiotics - Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News

Visible light-powered molecular machines drill through bacterial membranes, rapidly killing infectious microorganisms and “vastly outperforming" conventional antibiotics.

Molecular machines that kill infectious bacteria have been engineered to function with a more clinically useful light power source. The latest iteration of these synthetic nanoscale drills, or molecu… [+8159 chars]

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