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New compound found to be effective against 'flesh-eating' bacteria in mice

• kylehotchkiss 2y ago
  “One of the jobs of a membrane is to exclude material from the outside," Caparon said. "We know that within five to ten minutes of treatment with GmPcide, the membranes start to become permeable and allow things that normally should be excluded to enter into the bacteria, which suggests that those membranes have been damaged." I wonder if this is a mechanism that won’t easily be adapted around. It also sounds like a cool technique to deliver other molecules to kill pathogens more broadly.