{"id":33202,"date":"2017-01-05T23:04:42","date_gmt":"2017-01-06T07:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/out-of-the-box-approaches-can-help-combat-antibiotic-resistance"},"modified":"2017-06-04T13:53:56","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T20:53:56","slug":"out-of-the-box-approaches-can-help-combat-antibiotic-resistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/out-of-the-box-approaches-can-help-combat-antibiotic-resistance","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Out-of-the-Box\u2019 Approaches Can Help Combat Antibiotic Resistance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/out-of-the-box-approaches-can-help-combat-antibiotic-resistance.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Is it possible to kill bacteria with bacteria?<\/p>\n<p>This is the unorthodox question posed by a team of researchers funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)\u2014a research and development organization within the U.S. Department of Defense\u2014that is exploring whether an unusual type of bacteria that <em>eats<\/em> other bacteria could be a new weapon in the fight against drug-resistant infections.<\/p>\n<p>Known as the Pathogen Predator program, the DARPA initiative (led by Dr. Barry Pallotta) is part of a growing effort to seek new and innovative ways to defeat drug-resistant superbugs, which are rapidly evolving to beat even our most powerful antibiotics.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewtrusts.org\/en\/research-and-analysis\/analysis\/2017\/01\/05\/out-of-the-box-approaches-can-help-combat-antibiotic-resistance\">http:\/\/www.pewtrusts.org\/en\/research-and-analysis\/analysis\/2...resistance<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it possible to kill bacteria with bacteria? This is the unorthodox question posed by a team of researchers funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)\u2014a research and development organization within the U.S. Department of Defense\u2014that is exploring whether an unusual type of bacteria that eats other bacteria could be a new weapon [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33202","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33202"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65427,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33202\/revisions\/65427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}