{"id":121528,"date":"2021-04-14T07:23:27","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T14:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/superbug-killer-new-nanotech-destroys-bacteria-and-fungal-cells"},"modified":"2021-04-14T07:23:27","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T14:23:27","slug":"superbug-killer-new-nanotech-destroys-bacteria-and-fungal-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/superbug-killer-new-nanotech-destroys-bacteria-and-fungal-cells","title":{"rendered":"Superbug killer: New nanotech destroys bacteria and fungal cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/superbug-killer-new-nanotech-destroys-bacteria-and-fungal-cells.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The material is one of the thinnest antimicrobial coatings developed to date and is effective against a broad range of drug-resistant bacteria and fungal cells, while leaving human cells unharmed.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Importantly, the BP also began to self-degrade in that time and was entirely disintegrated within 24 hours\u2014an important feature that shows the material would not accumulate in the body.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/laboratory+study\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">laboratory study<\/a> identified the optimum levels of BP that have a deadly antimicrobial effect while leaving human cells healthy and whole.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers have now begun experimenting with different formulations to test the efficacy on a range of medically-relevant surfaces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The material is one of the thinnest antimicrobial coatings developed to date and is effective against a broad range of drug-resistant bacteria and fungal cells, while leaving human cells unharmed. Importantly, the BP also began to self-degrade in that time and was entirely disintegrated within 24 hours\u2014an important feature that shows the material would not [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}