CNS and Texas A&M Find That Bacteria-killing Polymers Avoid Resistance to Antibiotics
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Scientists at Texas A&M University—who collaborated with researchers at UMass Amherst's College of Natural Sciences as an evaluation partner—say they have created a new family of polymers capable of killing bacteria without inducing antibiotic resistance.
According to Plasteurope.com, a business information platform for the European plastics industry, "the new polymers disrupt the membrane of the microorganisms without inducing antibiotic resistance...The polymers could help fight such resistance in the future by providing antibacterial molecules that operate through a mechanism against which bacteria do not seem to develop immunity."
In a conversation with ScienceDaily, Dr. Quentin Michaudel of Texas A&M contended that "this project was several years in the making and would not have been possible without the help of several groups, in addition to our UMass collaborators."