{"id":157910,"date":"2023-02-13T22:23:09","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T04:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/israeli-find-shown-to-combat-antibiotic-resistance"},"modified":"2023-02-13T22:23:09","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T04:23:09","slug":"israeli-find-shown-to-combat-antibiotic-resistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/israeli-find-shown-to-combat-antibiotic-resistance","title":{"rendered":"Israeli find shown to combat antibiotic resistance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/israeli-find-shown-to-combat-antibiotic-resistance.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Israeli scientists have developed a substance that overcomes antibiotic resistance by \u201cpricking bacteria to death,\u201d researchers at Ben Gurion University told the Times of Israel on Friday, in a breakthrough that could help combat a major threat to global health.<\/p>\n<p>The substance contains \u201cnano needles\u201d which have a lethal effect on bacteria, and will be developed into topical creams and antibacterial coatings for surfaces, the scientists said, noting that it has shown 90% effectiveness in killing antibiotic-resistant bacteria in lab conditions.<\/p>\n<p>When bacteria stop being affected by antibiotics, it is known as antibiotic resistance, and these pathogens are sometimes colloquially called superbugs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli scientists have developed a substance that overcomes antibiotic resistance by \u201cpricking bacteria to death,\u201d researchers at Ben Gurion University told the Times of Israel on Friday, in a breakthrough that could help combat a major threat to global health. The substance contains \u201cnano needles\u201d which have a lethal effect on bacteria, and will be [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157910","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}