ANAHEIM, CA – The use of antibiotics to treat bacterial infections causes a continual and vicious cycle in which antibiotic treatment leads to the emergence and spread of resistant strains, forcing the use of additional drugs leading to further multi-drug resistance.
Two separate research teams announced new breakthroughs in developing DNA molecules that behave like robots. Their research, published in two papers in the May 13 edition of the journal Nature, marks an important step in the field of DNA nanotechnology, molecular computing, and robotics that could one day lead to...