{"id":226661,"date":"2025-12-07T14:12:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T20:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/phages-carrying-silver-nanoparticles-could-combat-antibiotic-resistance"},"modified":"2025-12-07T14:12:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T20:12:07","slug":"phages-carrying-silver-nanoparticles-could-combat-antibiotic-resistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/phages-carrying-silver-nanoparticles-could-combat-antibiotic-resistance","title":{"rendered":"Phages Carrying Silver Nanoparticles Could Combat Antibiotic Resistance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/phages-carrying-silver-nanoparticles-could-combat-antibiotic-resistance.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a recent study, Bagchi and her colleagues discovered that together, silver nanoparticles scaffolded onto phages killed bacteria more potently than either component alone.<\/p>\n<p>This suggests that the conjugates may be a new, promising weapon in the fight against antibiotic resistance.<\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3KKm5D4\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/3KKm5D4<\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>In a recent study, researchers wanted to \u201ctake advantage of both worlds,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Damayanti-Bagchi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Damayanti Bagchi<\/a>, a material chemist who led the work as a postdoctoral researcher in <a href=\"https:\/\/research.seas.ucla.edu\/irene-chen\/\" target=\"_blank\">Irene Chen<\/a>\u2019s laboratory at the University of California, Los Angeles.<sup>1<\/sup> For the first time, Bagchi and her colleagues synthesized silver nanoparticles using phages called M13, which they also used as a scaffold for the nanoparticles. The silver particle and M13 phage conjugate killed bacteria more effectively than each component alone. The conjugate also slowed down the development of bacterial resistance. This work, published in <em>Langmuir<\/em>, expands researchers\u2019 arsenal of weapons in their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-scientist.com\/sequence-shifts-help-net-forming-peptides-trap-and-kill-bacteria-73519\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fight against antibiotic resistance<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is quite new, using phages as scaffolds [for silver nanoparticles]. I find it very exciting,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.winthrop.edu\/cas\/faculty\/fernandez-timea.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Timea Fernandez<\/a>, a biochemist at Winthrop University who was not involved in the study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent study, Bagchi and her colleagues discovered that together, silver nanoparticles scaffolded onto phages killed bacteria more potently than either component alone. This suggests that the conjugates may be a new, promising weapon in the fight against antibiotic resistance. Read more: https:\/\/bit.ly\/3KKm5D4 In a recent study, researchers wanted to \u201ctake advantage of both [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226661","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}