"Smart Antibiotics" May Result From UCLA Research

New UCLA research published in Nature may lead to an effective alternative to antibiotic drugs for treating bacterial diseases. UCLA microbiologists report the discovery of a new class of genetic elements, similar to retroviruses, that operate in bacteria, allowing them to diversify their proteins to bind to a large variety of receptors. The team discovered this fundamental mechanism in the most abundant life-forms on Earth: bacteriophages, the viruses that infect bacteria.

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