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Eliminating resistant bacteria with nanoparticles
Novel nanoparticles developed by researchers at ETH Zurich and Empa detect multi-resistant bacteria hiding in body cells and kill them. The scientists’ goal is to develop an antibacterial agent that is effective where conventional antibiotics remain ineffective.
The researchers have developed nanoparticles (red) that can kill resistant bacteria (yellow) incorporated by cells of the body (coloured electron microscopy image). (Photograph: Empa)
In the arms race “mankind against bacteria”, bacteria are currently ahead of us. Our former miracle weapons, antibiotics, are failing more and more frequently when germs use tricky maneuvers to protect themselves from the effects of these drugs. Some species even retreat into the inside of human cells, where they remain “invisible” to the immune system. These particularly dreaded pathogens include multi-resistant staphylococci (MRSA), which can cause life-threatening disea