Sentences with phrase «into bacterial resistance»
As we discussed in a previous episode of HPAY, antibiotics and their devastating cousins the «HIV antiretrovirals» take us into bacterial resistance and dependence on ever more powerful drugs.
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If so, and if researchers can identify the exact sugars responsible, those molecules might be converted into desperately needed new antibiotic drugs that could sidestep some of the problems, such as bacterial resistance, with existing antibiotics.
A plasmid, a simple kind of DNA - delivery vehicle, will move a gene for antibiotic resistance into the bacterial cells, jump - starting the Crispr - Cas9 system.
Bacteria expressing enzyme in one cell (bright green), while genetically identical cells do not, remaining protected from antibiotic onslaught; image courtesy of Yuichi Wakamoto / Neeraj Dhar / John McKinney Some strains of nasty bacterial infections, such as MRSA (methicillin - resistant Staphylococcus aureus), come loaded with resistance to antibiotics built right into their genes.
The team cut and pasted a bovine gene for NRAMP1, a protein linked to resistance against TB and other bacterial infections, into fetal dairy cow genomes.
Ongoing studies are identifying commensal bacterial species that can be developed into next - generation probiotics to reestablish or enhance colonization resistance.
Cheng's group previously developed short protein chains that twist into a helical spiral, giving them a stiff, rodlike structure that can punch holes through bacterial membranes — a method of killing to which bacteria have little ability to develop resistance.
«This discovery sets up the possibility of introducing FLS3 into other economically important crop plants, which might provide resistance to bacterial pathogens that is not naturally present in other plants.»
Her work has led to a number of seminal discoveries and insights into pathways governing antibiotic resistance and virulence of bacterial pathogens.