Resist the resistance: fighting the good fight against bacteria
E-Mail IMAGE: A research team led by Scott Medina, assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Penn State, has developed a small protein that can target a specific pathogen to attach to and... view more Credit: The Medina Group/Penn State Drug-resistant bacteria could lead to more deaths than cancer by 2050, according to a report commissioned by the United Kingdom in 2014 and jointly supported by the U.K. government and the Wellcome Trust. In an effort to reduce the potential infection-caused 10 million deaths worldwide, Penn State researcher Scott Medina has developed a pept...
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