{"id":73099,"date":"2017-10-07T00:04:16","date_gmt":"2017-10-07T07:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/light-activated-nanoparticles-can-supercharge-current-antibiotics"},"modified":"2017-10-07T00:04:16","modified_gmt":"2017-10-07T07:04:16","slug":"light-activated-nanoparticles-can-supercharge-current-antibiotics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/light-activated-nanoparticles-can-supercharge-current-antibiotics","title":{"rendered":"Light-activated nanoparticles can supercharge current antibiotics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/light-activated-nanoparticles-can-supercharge-current-antibiotics.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Light-activated nanoparticles, also known as quantum dots, can provide a crucial boost in effectiveness for antibiotic treatments used to combat drug-resistant superbugs such as <i>E. coli<\/i> and <i>Salmonella<\/i>, new University of Colorado Boulder research shows.<\/p>\n<p>Multi-drug resistant pathogens, which evolve their defenses faster than new <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/antibiotic+treatments\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">antibiotic treatments<\/a> can be developed to treat them, cost the United States an estimated $20 billion in direct healthcare costs and an additional $35 billion in lost productivity in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>CU Boulder researchers, however, were able to re-potentiate existing <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/antibiotics\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">antibiotics<\/a> for certain clinical isolate infections by introducing nano-engineered <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum<\/a> dots, which can be deployed selectively and activated or de-activated using specific wavelengths of light.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2017-10-light-activated-nanoparticles-supercharge-current-antibiotics.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2017&#45;10-light-activated-nanopartic...otics.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Light-activated nanoparticles, also known as quantum dots, can provide a crucial boost in effectiveness for antibiotic treatments used to combat drug-resistant superbugs such as E. coli and Salmonella, new University of Colorado Boulder research shows. Multi-drug resistant pathogens, which evolve their defenses faster than new antibiotic treatments can be developed to treat them, cost the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanotechnology","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73099","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}