{"id":230785,"date":"2026-02-07T05:22:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T11:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/new-crispr-tool-spreads-through-bacteria-to-disable-antibiotic-resistance-genes"},"modified":"2026-02-07T05:22:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T11:22:33","slug":"new-crispr-tool-spreads-through-bacteria-to-disable-antibiotic-resistance-genes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/new-crispr-tool-spreads-through-bacteria-to-disable-antibiotic-resistance-genes","title":{"rendered":"New CRISPR tool spreads through bacteria to disable antibiotic resistance genes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-crispr-tool-spreads-through-bacteria-to-disable-antibiotic-resistance-genes.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Antibiotic resistance (AR) has steadily accelerated in recent years to become a global health crisis. As deadly bacteria evolve new ways to elude drug treatments for a variety of illnesses, a growing number of \u201csuperbugs\u201d have emerged, ramping up estimates of more than 10 million worldwide deaths per year by 2050.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists are looking to recently developed technologies to address the pressing threat of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, which are known to flourish in hospital settings, sewage treatment areas, animal husbandry locations, and fish farms. University of California San Diego scientists have now applied cutting-edge genetics tools to counteract antibiotic resistance.<\/p>\n<p>The laboratories of UC San Diego School of Biological Sciences Professors Ethan Bier and Justin Meyer have collaborated on a novel method of removing antibiotic-resistant elements from populations of bacteria. The researchers developed a new CRISPR-based technology similar to gene drives, which are being applied in insect populations to disrupt the spread of harmful properties, such as parasites that cause malaria. The new <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-05-gene-tool-antimicrobial-resistance.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">Pro-Active Genetics<\/a> (Pro-AG) tool called pPro-MobV is a second-generation technology that uses a similar approach to disable drug resistance in populations of bacteria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antibiotic resistance (AR) has steadily accelerated in recent years to become a global health crisis. As deadly bacteria evolve new ways to elude drug treatments for a variety of illnesses, a growing number of \u201csuperbugs\u201d have emerged, ramping up estimates of more than 10 million worldwide deaths per year by 2050. Scientists are looking to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1498,11,1506,412,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-augmented-reality","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-genetics","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230785","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}