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Rice University

BACTERIA 1

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An illustration shows how motorized nanomachines triggered by light drill into bacteria, making a path for antibiotics. Experiments showed the bacteria became susceptible again to the antibiotic meropenem, to which it had developed resistance.

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Don Thushara Galbadage/Biola University

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