Traditional Antibiotics That Can Be Found
Traditional antibiotics that can be found in the local drugstore are used to fight against the common cold or common infection and indiscriminately kills everything at once. There are many reasons why instantly going for antibiotics when something goes wrong with our bodies is something that shouldn’t be done regularly. Antibiotics have brought an age of resistant bacteria which means that they are unaffected by the antibiotics because they have adapted to not be affected by them. This in turns makes it more difficult to fight against them. This means that increased dosages or antibiotics that are stronger must be used which can have more severe side effects.
And so, in response to the current day problem with antibiotics, researchers from the University of Rockefeller have been working on a smarter way to fight bacteria using ‘programmable’ antibiotics which specifically targets the antibiotic resistance genes and cuts it out of the DNA sequence. By using the bacterial enzyme known as Cas9, the researchers were successful in getting it to target a particular DNA sequence and remove it from the bacteria. This new approach could reduce the risk of C. diff (which is an infection of the colon) and they were able to get Cas9 to target the specific sequenes by
And so, in response to the current day problem with antibiotics, researchers from the University of Rockefeller have been working on a smarter way to fight bacteria using ‘programmable’ antibiotics which specifically targets the antibiotic resistance genes and cuts it out of the DNA sequence. By using the bacterial enzyme known as Cas9, the researchers were successful in getting it to target a particular DNA sequence and remove it from the bacteria. This new approach could reduce the risk of C. diff (which is an infection of the colon) and they were able to get Cas9 to target the specific sequenes by