{"id":171906,"date":"2023-09-13T12:22:30","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T17:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/ultrathin-nanotech-promises-to-help-tackle-antibiotic-resistance"},"modified":"2023-09-13T12:22:30","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T17:22:30","slug":"ultrathin-nanotech-promises-to-help-tackle-antibiotic-resistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/ultrathin-nanotech-promises-to-help-tackle-antibiotic-resistance","title":{"rendered":"Ultrathin nanotech promises to help tackle antibiotic resistance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ultrathin-nanotech-promises-to-help-tackle-antibiotic-resistance.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The innovation \u2013 which has undergone advanced pre-clinical trials \u2013 is effective against a broad range of drug-resistant bacterial cells, including \u2018golden staph\u2019, which are commonly referred to as superbugs.<\/p>\n<p>Antibiotic resistance is a major global health threat, causing about 700,000 deaths annually, a figure which could rise to 10 million deaths a year by 2050 without the development of new antibacterial therapies.<\/p>\n<p>The new study led by RMIT University and the University of South Australia (UniSA) tested black phosphorus-based nanotechnology as an advanced infection treatment and wound healing therapeutic.<\/p>\n<p>Results published in <i>Advanced Therapeutics<\/i> show it effectively treated infections,\u2026 More.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Researchers have invented a nano-thin superbug-slaying material that could be integrated into wound dressings to prevent or heal bacterial infections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The innovation \u2013 which has undergone advanced pre-clinical trials \u2013 is effective against a broad range of drug-resistant bacterial cells, including \u2018golden staph\u2019, which are commonly referred to as superbugs. Antibiotic resistance is a major global health threat, causing about 700,000 deaths annually, a figure which could rise to 10 million deaths a year by [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":461,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171906","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\/461"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}