Deadly 'Superbugs' Can Get Destroyed By Molecular Drills

Motorized molecules have been recently seen to get activated by light target and also a drill through highly antibiotic resistant bacteria and kill them within few minutes. The molecules also are enabled to open bacteria for attacking by drugs they previously has resisted. The strategy could be further applied to bacterial infections or diseases on the skin, in the lungs or even in the gastrointestinal tract.
Molecular drills have also seen to recently gain the ability for the targeting and destroying of deadly bacteria that have been evolved resistance to nearly all the antibiotics. In some cases, the drills had made the antibiotics effective once again.
Researchers at the Texas A&M University, Rice University, Biola University and Durham (U.K.) University has showed that motorized molecules even developed in the Rice lab of chemist James Tour are also very effective at killing the antibiotic-resistant microbes within few minutes.
Tour also added that these are the superbugs which have the great ability of killing around 10 million people 2050 year, way overtaking the deadly cancer, further he added that these are the bacteria’s that give nightmare; they don't respond to any things not even small or big.
The motors has targeted the bacteria and, once activated with the help of light, burrow through their exteriors.
While bacteria have the ability to evolve for resisting antibiotics by locking the antibiotics out, the bacteria have no defence that is against molecular drills. Antibiotics are able to get through openings made by the help of drills are once again lethal to the bacteria present.

By: Prerana Sharma
Content: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/12/191212142721.htm