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Science News // 1 decade ago

New method of killing bacteria is created

U.S. scientists say they have developed a method of "fooling" a bacterium's evolutionary machinery into programming its own death.

Science News // 1 decade ago

Study may lead to more potent antibiotics

U.S. chemists have discovered an antimicrobial process that could eventually eliminate the problem of bacterial resistance.

Science News // 1 decade ago

Cause of one form of deafness found

U.S. scientists exploring the physics of hearing say they have found an underlying molecular cause for one form of deafness.

Science News // 1 decade ago

Getting DNA to self-assemble

University of Illinois researchers have developed new ways to get DNA to self-assemble into various kinds of structures.

Science News // 1 decade ago

Nano World: Bio-nanotubes to fight cancer

Nanotubes made with naturally occurring parts of cells at their core someday could serve as nanoscale capsules that deliver genes and drugs into the body, researchers told UPI's Nano World.

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The basic idea is for an antimicrobial to target something in a bacteria that, in order to gain immunity, would require the bacteria to kill itself through a suicide mutation
New method of killing bacteria is created Dec 16, 2008

We can use this as a kind of Rosetta stone to decipher the mechanisms of much more complicated antimicrobial molecules
Study may lead to more potent antibiotics Sep 20, 2007

We found the structure of the bundles changes dramatically when normal espin is replaced with espin mutants that cause deafness
Cause of one form of deafness found Feb 06, 2007

This shows a set of general principles that will help guide people into what they actually wind up making
Nano World: Bio-nanotubes to fight cancer Aug 12, 2005