the invention of superbacterium Ke star will benefit millions of people for
2016 in many media, mainly because she has led and developed a new special drug against superbacteria.
maybe you would think superbug sounds far away? That's not the case! Superbugs are bacteria that are resistant to many kinds of antibiotics on the market. With the abuse of antibiotics over the past decades, more and more bacteria have produced resistance, and they have evolved faster and faster, more tenacious and more threatening to humans, and this kind of bacteria, called superbacteria.
although the speed of bacterial evolution is accelerating and drug resistance is increasing, the speed of human invention of antibiotics is slower and slower. In the past decade, only two or three new antibiotics have been released, and the failure rate of antibiotics is faster and faster. Human beings are facing the horror of no drug use.
the British government has found that more than 700 thousand people die of superbug infection worldwide today. And if there is no containment, by 2050, the superbug will kill one patient every three seconds. According to WHO, superbug is currently one of the greatest threats to human beings, and it is resistant to all antibiotics available.
the results of the blue Kleenex team are aimed at the superbugs that can not be used. "I was led by Professor Qiao Guanghua of the Department of chemical engineering at Melbourne University and associate professor Neil O 'Brien-Simpson of the medical Dentistry College of Melbourne University to develop a new drug that could kill superbacteria called star polymers." Lan Shujie said.
"this is a new type of polymer, which is star shaped and can tear the cell walls of super bacteria to kill them. Superbugs have no resistance to this star polymer, "Lan Shujie said. More difficult, the polymer is a "custom" designed for superbacteria. It only attacks superbacteria and does not hurt normal cells. That is to say, its toxic and side effects are minimal. This exhilarating result was soon published in the journal Nature microbiology. This invention can be said to save tens of millions of lives, so it just came out, it is not surprising that many media are competing to report.