Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have transformed toxin in wasps into potential antibiotic drugs that may cure hard to cure bacterial infections. [Courtesy]
US. Researchers have transformed toxin in wasps into potential antibiotic drugs that may eliminate hard-to-cure bacterial infections.
In a study published in the Nature Communications Biology, the researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology created peptides that can kill bacteria but are nontoxic to human cells.
The venom-derived peptide disrupts bacterial cell membranes.
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