MIT researchers remake wasp toxin into antibiotic drugs

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.