Bacteria-eating bugs
With antibiotics becoming less effective due to over-prescription, the worry that superbugs will one day ravage the human race is more and more a worrying possibility. Now along come
bacteriophages which, according to
Wired News, "eat drug-resistant bacteria for breakfast". Read all about Georgian scientist
Alexander Sulakvelidze and his work on bacteriophages in the full story at
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.10/phages.html.
Posted by belinda at September 19, 2003 10:59 AM