{"id":90451,"date":"2019-05-08T12:43:08","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T19:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/sneaky-bacteria-can-swap-genes-making-them-immune-to-antibiotics"},"modified":"2019-05-08T12:43:08","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T19:43:08","slug":"sneaky-bacteria-can-swap-genes-making-them-immune-to-antibiotics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/sneaky-bacteria-can-swap-genes-making-them-immune-to-antibiotics","title":{"rendered":"Sneaky Bacteria Can Swap Genes, Making Them Immune to Antibiotics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sneaky-bacteria-can-swap-genes-making-them-immune-to-antibiotics2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A newly-discovered gene gives infectious bacteria the ability to survive even the strongest antibiotics.<\/p>\n<p>Cornell University biologists found the bacterial gene <em>mcr-9<\/em>, which when activated makes bacteria resistant to an \u201cantibiotic of last resort\u201d called colistin, <a href=\"https:\/\/mbio.asm.org\/content\/10\/3\/e00853-19\">according to research<\/a> published in the journal <em>mBio<\/em> on Tuesday. If bacteria with the gene were to spread, doctors could find themselves facing a dangerous and perhaps untreatable superbug.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/bacteria-swap-genes-immune-antibiotics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A newly-discovered gene gives infectious bacteria the ability to survive even the strongest antibiotics. Cornell University biologists found the bacterial gene mcr-9, which when activated makes bacteria resistant to an \u201cantibiotic of last resort\u201d called colistin, according to research published in the journal mBio on Tuesday. If bacteria with the gene were to spread, doctors [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90451","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}