{"id":89142,"date":"2019-04-02T03:22:47","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T10:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/anti-evolution-drugs-could-keep-gambling-bacteria-from-developing-antibiotic-resistance"},"modified":"2019-04-02T03:22:47","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T10:22:47","slug":"anti-evolution-drugs-could-keep-gambling-bacteria-from-developing-antibiotic-resistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/anti-evolution-drugs-could-keep-gambling-bacteria-from-developing-antibiotic-resistance","title":{"rendered":"Anti-evolution drugs could keep gambling bacteria from developing antibiotic resistance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/anti-evolution-drugs-could-keep-gambling-bacteria-from-developing-antibiotic-resistance.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bacteria are fast evolving <a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/tag\/superbugs\/\" target=\"_blank\">resistance to antibiotics<\/a>, which is fast-tracking us to a <a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/antimicrobial-resistance-review-calls-urgent-action\/43443\/\" target=\"_blank\">future<\/a> where our best drugs no longer work and simple infections become life-threatening once again. While <a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/cefiderocol-new-antibiotic-human-trials\/56991\/\" target=\"_blank\">new antibiotics<\/a> are in the works, the bugs will eventually develop resistances to those too, so a longer term strategy might be to prevent them from evolving in the first place. A new study has found that bacteria use clever gambles to adapt \u2013 and showed how we could rig the game in our favor.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/anti-evolution-drugs-bacteria-antibiotic-resistance\/59117\/\">https:\/\/newatlas.com\/anti-evolution-drugs-bacteria-antibiotic-resistance\/59117\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bacteria are fast evolving resistance to antibiotics, which is fast-tracking us to a future where our best drugs no longer work and simple infections become life-threatening once again. While new antibiotics are in the works, the bugs will eventually develop resistances to those too, so a longer term strategy might be to prevent them from [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,385],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-evolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89142","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}