Rice University is developing nanoscale drills that are triggered by visible light. The nanoscale drills are being developed, in part, to kill bacteria, with treatments of real infections showing nano machines are effective. As bacteria grows more resistance to treatment, new, innovative alternatives are becoming essential to keep up.
Visible light triggers molecular machines to treat infections — ScienceDaily
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2022-06-01 18:28:04
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“I tell students that when they are my age, antibiotic-resistant bacteria are going to make COVID look like a walk in the park,” Tour said. “Antibiotics won’t be able to keep 10 million people a year from dying of bacterial infections. But this really stops them.”
The breakthrough study led by Tour and Rice alumni Ana Santos and Dongdong Liu appears in Science Advances.
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