Silica Smart Bombs Deliver Knock-out To Bacteria, University of North Carolina Study

ScienceDaily (Feb. 26, 2008) — Bacteria mutate for a living, evading antibiotic drugs while killing tens of thousands of people in the United States each year. But as concern about drug-resistant bacteria grows, one novel approach under way at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill seeks to thwart the bug without a drug by taking a cue from nature.

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