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Peptides could be primed to solve the knotty problem of antibiotic resistance among humans. Rice University scientists believe they can help. The Rice lab of chemist Anatoly Kolomeisky modeled a range of antimicrobial peptides (AMPs), natural and varied molecules that aid biological systems, to evaluate the mechanisms they use to stop harmful bacteria. That understanding …
Scientist have developed a way to examine how antimicrobial peptides behave in an in vivo setting rather than the typical in vitro setting by using a systematic strategy, as published in eLife. CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing technology was used to systematically delete AMP genes, going as far to delete all the known AMPs in fruit fly …