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How to train the body's own cells to combat antibiotic resistance

  • Written by Zahidul Alam, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania
Antibiotic-resistant germs can thrive in the presence of these drugs.Lightspring/Shutterstock.com

Drug-resistant superbugs have threatened human health for decades. The situation is getting worse because of the shortage of new antibiotics. But what if we changed the way we aim to treat them, and trained our cells to kill these invaders instead of...

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