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Battling superbugs

posted September 21, 2014 at 1:46 pm

This image shows adhesion between the silica tip of an atomic force microscope and adhesive fibers made by fusing mussel foot proteins and curli amyloid fibers. Image: Yan Liang

Two new technologies could enable novel strategies for combating drug-resistant bacteria. « more »

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Battling superbugs (MIT News)

Enhanced killing of antibiotic-resistant bacteria enabled by massively parallel combinatorial genetics (PNAS)

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