{"id":76529,"date":"2018-03-06T00:42:37","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T08:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/new-synthetic-polymer-kills-antibiotic-resistant-superbugs-from-the-inside-out"},"modified":"2018-03-06T15:00:51","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T23:00:51","slug":"new-synthetic-polymer-kills-antibiotic-resistant-superbugs-from-the-inside-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/new-synthetic-polymer-kills-antibiotic-resistant-superbugs-from-the-inside-out","title":{"rendered":"New synthetic polymer kills antibiotic-resistant superbugs from the inside out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-synthetic-polymer-kills-antibiotic-resistant-superbugs-from-the-inside-out.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A research team composed of scientists from the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) and IBM Research has produced a new synthetic molecule that can target and kill five multidrug-resistant bacteria. This synthetic polymer was found to be non-toxic and could enable entirely new classes of therapeutics to address the growing problem of antibiotic-resistant superbugs.<\/p>\n<p>The synthetic molecules are called guanidinium-functionalized polycarbonates and were found to be both biodegradable and non-toxic to human cells. Essentially, the positively-charged synthetic polymer enters a living body and binds specifically to certain bacteria cells by homing in on a microbial membrane\u2019s related negative charge. Once attached to the bacteria, the polymer crosses the cell membrane and triggers the solidification of proteins and DNA in the cell, killing the bacteria.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/synthetic-molecule-polymer-treat-resistant-bacteria\/53676\/\">https:\/\/newatlas.com\/synthetic-molecule-polymer-treat-resistant-bacteria\/53676\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A research team composed of scientists from the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) and IBM Research has produced a new synthetic molecule that can target and kill five multidrug-resistant bacteria. This synthetic polymer was found to be non-toxic and could enable entirely new classes of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76529","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76559,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76529\/revisions\/76559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}