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Fight Evolution With Evolution: Kill Bacteria With Viruses

By Hank Campbell in Science 2.0
June 1, 2011
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Submitted by Hank on Wed, 06/01/2011 - 15:08
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We are losing the war against infectious bacteria. They are becoming increasingly resistant to our antibiotics, and we have few new drugs in the pipeline. Worse still, bacteria can transfer genes between each other with great ease, so if one of them evolves to resist an antibiotic, its neighbours can pick up the same ability. But Matti Jalasvuori from the University of Jyvaskyla doesn’t see this microscopic arms-dealing as a problem. He sees it as a target.

Fighting evolution with evolution – using viruses to target drug-resistant bacteria - Ed Yong, Discover Blogs

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