{"id":193798,"date":"2024-07-31T10:25:09","date_gmt":"2024-07-31T15:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/new-dual-target-drug-could-make-antibiotic-resistance-100-million-times-harder"},"modified":"2024-07-31T10:25:09","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T15:25:09","slug":"new-dual-target-drug-could-make-antibiotic-resistance-100-million-times-harder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/new-dual-target-drug-could-make-antibiotic-resistance-100-million-times-harder","title":{"rendered":"New Dual-Target Drug Could Make Antibiotic Resistance 100 Million Times Harder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-dual-target-drug-could-make-antibiotic-resistance-100-million-times-harder2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s easy to think of bacteria as one of the greatest scourges on Earth for the diseases and deaths they cause, and how they repeatedly thwart our best antibiotics, evolving into drug-resistant superbugs.<\/p>\n<p>But really, bacteria are just doing what they\u2019ve always done \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-just-caught-bacteria-using-a-never-before-seen-trick-to-avoid-antibiotics\">finding new ways to survive<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/new-class-of-antibiotic-found-that-kills-deadly-drug-resistant-superbug\">search for<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/just-1-dose-of-new-antibiotic-class-eliminates-resistant-blood-infections-in-mice\">new antibiotics<\/a> continues, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41579-018-0141-x\">combination therapies<\/a> are increasingly being tested to try to clamp down on multiple bacterial escape pathways at once, and <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/fphar.2022.839808\">limit the chances<\/a> of microbes <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.eng.2024.02.010\">developing resistance<\/a> with successive biological hacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s easy to think of bacteria as one of the greatest scourges on Earth for the diseases and deaths they cause, and how they repeatedly thwart our best antibiotics, evolving into drug-resistant superbugs. But really, bacteria are just doing what they\u2019ve always done \u2013 finding new ways to survive. While the search for new antibiotics [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193798","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}