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dr. dolittle | May 12, 2017Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are a pretty scary thing, which is why researchers are working so hard to come up with new and creative ways to fight them off. Take for example nanosponges.
In a presentation from the Experimental Biology meeting in Chicago last month, researchers from the University of California in San Diego are testing the use of nanosponges (shown on the right in the figure below) to bind and inactivate toxins that are released from bacteria.
Image Credit: Tamara Escajadillo, University of California, San Diego
Nanosponges are basically the membrane of red blood cells…