{"id":21190,"date":"2016-01-25T11:47:27","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T19:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/quantum-dots-to-fight-drug-resistant-bacteria"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:14:27","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:14:27","slug":"quantum-dots-to-fight-drug-resistant-bacteria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/quantum-dots-to-fight-drug-resistant-bacteria","title":{"rendered":"Quantum Dots To Fight Drug Resistant Bacteria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-dots-to-fight-drug-resistant-bacteria.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Researchers at the University of Colorado have created a unique, light-activated nanotherapy to destroy antibiotic resistant bacteria<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The pursuit of longevity requires continued, effective antibiotics. Otherwise, you could be as fit as a fiddle at 100 and still be downed by a nasty, resistant strain.<\/p>\n<p>While bacterial strains resistant to current drugs are rapidly rising across the globe, infecting 2 million people last year, researchers are turning to increasingly innovative ways to destroy these populations. Nanotechnology is one such, increasingly promising technology.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.longevityreporter.org\/blog\/2016\/1\/25\/quantum-dots-to-fight-drug-resistant-bacteria\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the University of Colorado have created a unique, light-activated nanotherapy to destroy antibiotic resistant bacteria The pursuit of longevity requires continued, effective antibiotics. Otherwise, you could be as fit as a fiddle at 100 and still be downed by a nasty, resistant strain. While bacterial strains resistant to current drugs are rapidly rising [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":386,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269,4,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-extension","category-nanotechnology","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21190","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\/386"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21190"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68727,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21190\/revisions\/68727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}