Scientific Articles

USA: Man who had transplant finds out months later his DNA has changed to that of donor 5,000 miles away.

USA: Man who had transplant finds out months later his DNA has changed to that of donor 5,000 miles away. USA: Man who had transplant finds out months later his DNA has changed to that of donor 5,000 miles away.     Three months after his bone marrow transplant, Chris Long of Reno, Nevada, learned that the

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USA: Deadly ‘superbugs’ destroyed by molecular drills.

USA: Deadly ‘superbugs’ destroyed by molecular drills. USA: Deadly ‘superbugs’ destroyed by molecular drills.   Molecular drills have gained the ability to target and destroy deadly bacteria that have evolved resistance to nearly all antibiotics. In some cases, the drills make the antibiotics effective once again. Researchers at Rice University, Texas A&M University, Biola University

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Viruses genetically engineered to kill bacteria rescue girl with antibiotic-resistant infection

Viruses genetically engineered to kill bacteria rescue girl with antibiotic-resistant infection One week after Helen Spencer’s 15-year-old cystic fibrosis patient had a double lung transplant in September 2017, the incision wound turned bright red. For half her life, Isabelle Carnell had been battling a drug-resistant infection of Mycobacterium abscessus, and now it was rapidly spreading, erupting

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