{"id":224994,"date":"2025-11-12T20:28:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T02:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/scientists-make-significant-discovery-on-bacterias-resistance-to-common-antibiotics"},"modified":"2025-11-12T20:28:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T02:28:19","slug":"scientists-make-significant-discovery-on-bacterias-resistance-to-common-antibiotics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/scientists-make-significant-discovery-on-bacterias-resistance-to-common-antibiotics","title":{"rendered":"Scientists make significant discovery on bacteria\u2019s resistance to common antibiotics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-make-significant-discovery-on-bacterias-resistance-to-common-antibiotics.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dr Andrea Weisse, from the University of Edinburgh\u2019s Schools of Biological Sciences and Informatics, who led the research, highlighted the urgency of the situation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBacteria are clever little things. They have been learning how to dodge our antibiotics, and they are getting better at it all the time,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we don\u2019t find new drugs \u2013 or new tricks to outsmart them \u2013 we are in trouble. What we are trying to do here is really understand how their defence systems work. Once we see the mechanism clearly, we can figure out smarter ways to beat them and treat infections more effectively.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Andrea Weisse, from the University of Edinburgh\u2019s Schools of Biological Sciences and Informatics, who led the research, highlighted the urgency of the situation. \u201cBacteria are clever little things. They have been learning how to dodge our antibiotics, and they are getting better at it all the time,\u201d she said. \u201cIf we don\u2019t find new [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224994","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=224994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}