New Antibiotic kills bacteria in TWO minutes


	New Antibiotic kills bacteria in TWO minutes

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/d6ea1fb6-fbd5-4144-9a73-c8d5a6be06ce/70A4579A-85CB-4651-A731-F729589A8C33/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://optimistworld.com/New-antibiotic-kils-bacteria-in-two-minutes/" href="http://optimistworld.com/New-antibiotic-kils-bacteria-in-two-minutes/" style="font-size: 11px;">optimistworld.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://optimistworld.com/New-antibiotic-kils-bacteria-in-two-minutes/"><H1>New antibiotic kils bacteria in two minutes - developed by Bath and Warwick Universities</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://optimistworld.com/New-antibiotic-kils-bacteria-in-two-minutes/"><P>Researchers at the Universities of Bath and Warwick are developing a new antibiotic that can kill bacteria in two minutes. <BR /></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://optimistworld.com/New-antibiotic-kils-bacteria-in-two-minutes/"><P>They have made a synthetic compound that kills the bacteria by binding to its DNA, making it coil up and prevent it from working properly.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://optimistworld.com/New-antibiotic-kils-bacteria-in-two-minutes/"><DIV class="article_image" id="divArticleImage">
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				            </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://optimistworld.com/New-antibiotic-kils-bacteria-in-two-minutes/"><P>The DNA binding properties of the compound were discovered at the University of Warwick by Professor Mike Hannon and Professor Alison Rodger.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://optimistworld.com/New-antibiotic-kils-bacteria-in-two-minutes/"><DIV>Initially the researchers focused on the application of this useful property for targeting the DNA of cancer cells, however the team quickly realised that it might also be a clever way of targeting drug-resistant bacteria.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://optimistworld.com/New-antibiotic-kils-bacteria-in-two-minutes/"><DIV>Strikingly, they found that the compound quickly bound to its intended target (the bacteria's DNA) and killed virtually every cell within two minutes of being added.</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/70A4579A-85CB-4651-A731-F729589A8C33/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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