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Genes and Ancient Remedies May Help Fight Antibiotic Resistance

Slashdot: Science - Fetched: September 9th, 2015, 9:00am UTC

szczys writes: We've been hearing about it for years; bacteria are developing resistance to antibiotics and evolving into what are called superbugs. Some forecast the end of our ability to combat infection, but humanity has a knack for making breakthroughs that carry everyone forward. Dan Maloney looked at what is being done to combat antibiotic-resistance and the answer combines new technology with old remedies. It turns out that there are many ancient cures that successfully combat infections (video); they're just mixed in among a lot of cruft. More modern efforts focus on attacking bacteria on the genetic level which is a research area just getting itself up to speed now.pdiv class="share_submission" style="position:relative;" a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Genes+and+Ancient+Remedies+May+Help+Fight+Antibiotic+Resistance%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F1KDJfVw"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F15%2F09%2F09%2F0327218%2Fgenes-and-ancient-remedies-may-help-fight-antibiotic-resistance%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://science.slashdot.org/story/15/09/09/0327218/genes-and-ancient-remedies-may-help-fight-antibiotic-resistance?utm_source=slashdotamp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"//a /div/ppa href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/15/09/09/0327218/genes-and-ancient-remedies-may-help-fight-antibiotic-resistance?utm_source=rss1.0moreanonamp;utm_medium=feed"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~4/lyy7xJ6SlRY" height="1" width="1" alt=""/

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