Silica Smart Bombs Deliver Knock Out To Bacteria

Bacteria mutate for a living, evading antibiotic drugs while killing tens of thousands of people in the United States each year. But as concern about drug-resistant bacteria grows, one novel approach under way at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill seeks to thwart the bug without a drug by taking a cue from nature.

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Filed under: Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses on February 26th, 2008