How to kill "Super Bacteria" without fear of antibiotics without antibiotics

BySarah Horrigan

Antibiotic absence "Superbacterium"Has been increasing in recent years, according to the report released by the British government,In 2050 super bacteria may kill one person every 3 secondsAnd that. A new antibiotic has also been developed to combat tolerant superbacteria, but one doctoral student is developing a technology to combat super bacteria with a completely different approach.

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Antibiotics are one of the greatest inventions of the 20th century, which succeeded in greatly extending human life. However, in recent years it is a discovery of penicillinAlexander FlemingThere is a danger of making bacteria resistant by taking an amount of medicine that an ignorant man is not enough to kill bacteria "mentioned in the awards speech of the Nobel prize is reality , Reports on super antibiotic super bacteria are increasing. Because bacteria are fast breeding speeds, evolving by removing weak points while retaining offensive power, antibiotics inherently produce "stronger" bacteria.

Even the antibiotic that is currently showing its efficacy has the disadvantage of damaging human healthy cells around the bacteria when killing harmful bacteria that have invaded the body . In addition, there are many bacteria that have a good effect on the body, such as helping digestion and strengthening the immune system in the gastrointestinal tract, but antibiotics destroy the environment in which these bacteria propagate.

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In light of these circumstances Shu Lam, a doctoral course at the University of Melbourne, created a technology to kill super bacteria without using antibiotics.

Mr. Lam's method of creating a biophysical stress on bacteria "to commit suicide". With this method, even if you kill Super Bacteria, you do not have to damage the surrounding healthy cells.

Mr. Lam creates specialized nanoparticles by bundling polymers composed of two amino acids (peptides). It is said that this star shaped particle breaks through the bacterial cell membrane and eventually destroys it. By combining two kinds of polypeptides, it seems that nanoparticles will obtain different characteristics than when using one polypeptide.

Although this technology is still in the stage of being experimented with six types of super bacteria for mice, super bacteria have not been resistant to this method at the moment. Further experiments are required before clinical trials are carried out, but it is considered to have great potential to combat super bacteria.

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The method "developing new antibiotics" that is currently being done can be a short-term solution, but after all it will be a mess and it can be a drastic way to combat super bacteria not. It is highly appreciated that Mr. Lam's method is not only the point that it is actually effective against superbacteria but also a completely different innovative approach from the past.