{"id":212723,"date":"2025-04-29T09:07:33","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T14:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/molecule-can-disarm-pathogenic-bacteria-without-harming-beneficial-microbes"},"modified":"2025-04-29T09:07:33","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T14:07:33","slug":"molecule-can-disarm-pathogenic-bacteria-without-harming-beneficial-microbes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/molecule-can-disarm-pathogenic-bacteria-without-harming-beneficial-microbes","title":{"rendered":"Molecule can disarm pathogenic bacteria without harming beneficial microbes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/molecule-can-disarm-pathogenic-bacteria-without-harming-beneficial-microbes.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A consortium of researchers with multidisciplinary skills, coordinated by INRAE and including the CNRS, the Universit\u00e9 Paris-Saclay and Inserm, has identified a molecule capable of \u201cdisarming\u201d pathogenic bacteria in the face of the immune system, without any negative effects on the host microbiota, promising a new strategy to combat antibiotic resistance.<\/p>\n<p>These results, already patented and recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-025-58282-8\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Nature Communications<\/i>, are leading to the development of new drugs.<\/p>\n<p>Antibiotic resistance is a major public health issue. According to the WHO, 5 million people die every year worldwide as a result of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/antibiotic+resistance\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">antibiotic resistance<\/a>. This could become the leading cause of death by 2050.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A consortium of researchers with multidisciplinary skills, coordinated by INRAE and including the CNRS, the Universit\u00e9 Paris-Saclay and Inserm, has identified a molecule capable of \u201cdisarming\u201d pathogenic bacteria in the face of the immune system, without any negative effects on the host microbiota, promising a new strategy to combat antibiotic resistance. These results, already patented [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212723","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\/212723","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\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}