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Engineering the Microbiome: CRISPR Leads the Way
Mariella Bodemeier Loayza Careaga, PhD | Mar 15, 2024 | 10+ min read
Scientists have genetically modified isolated microbes for decades. Now, using CRISPR, they intend to target entire microbiomes.
Phages Carry Antibiotic Resistance Genes
Abby Olena, PhD | Dec 7, 2016 | 2 min read
Researchers find evidence of antibiotic resistance genes in the DNA of viruses that infect bacteria.
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Opinion: We Need More than New Antibiotics to Fight Resistance
Neil S. Greenspan and Arturo Casadevall | Nov 1, 2019 | 3 min read
Metabolic disrupters, phages, and other approaches are going to be needed to treat the broadest possible range of patients infected by bacterial pathogens resistant to multiple drugs.
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The Scientist Speaks - Rising From the Dead: How Antibiotic Resistance Genes Travel Between Current and Past Bacteria
Nele Haelterman, PhD | Jul 25, 2022 | 1 min read
Heather Kittredge and Sarah Evans discuss the environmental conditions that facilitate natural transformation in bacteria’s native habitat.  
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How Bacterial Communities Divvy up Duties
Holly Barker, PhD | Jun 1, 2023 | 10+ min read
Biofilms are home to millions of microbes, but disrupting their interactions could produce more effective antibiotics.
Gut harbors antibiotic resistance
Bob Grant | Aug 26, 2009 | 3 min read
The millions of microbes that crowd the human intestinal tract are teeming with new antibiotic resistance genes that could jump to disease-causing pathogens, according to researchers from Harvard University.An artist's conception of microbialecology in the gut. Pathogenic bacteria(green coats) receiving Penicillinresistance genes from beneficialgut bacteria (blue rounded chains)Image courtesy of A. Canossa, M.Sommer and G. Dantas They found more than 90 undiscovered bacterial genes capable of c
Resistance Fighter
Anna Azvolinsky | Jun 1, 2015 | 9 min read
Stuart Levy has spent a lifetime studying mechanisms of antibiotic resistance and crusading to abolish the use of antibiotics in animal feed.
Opinion: “Drug Sanctuaries” Offer Hope to a Post-Antibiotic World
Rees Kassen | Apr 24, 2018 | 4 min read
Drug-free environments, such as a designated ward in a hospital, might reduce the strength of selection for resistance.
Battling Evolution to Fight Antibiotic Resistance
Monya Baker(mbaker@the-scientist.com) | Oct 9, 2005 | 6 min read
For any new antibiotic, resistant bacteria typically show up in four years, or less.
Discovering Novel Antibiotics
Sandeep Ravindran | Feb 1, 2017 | 7 min read
Three methods identify and activate silent bacterial gene clusters to uncover new drugs

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