Pingie: HTTP:: Experts Work on 039 Evolutionary Forecasting 039 Tool

HTTP:: Experts Work on 039 Evolutionary Forecasting 039 Tool
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As we pointed out earlier, the state of the “war” between microorganisms and humans is getting increasingly worrying for our species. In spite of being more complex in make-up than bacteria â€" or maybe because of that â€", we cannot adapt very fast to their mutations, and our immune systems just cannot keep up. An important tool to ensure our survival is currently in the works at the Rice University. Experts are designing an “evolutionary forecasting” tool, which will be able to hint at how microorganisms become resistant to antibiotics, and how they will evolve in the future. “Our goal is to show antibiotic makers which sets of genes a pathogen will modify to become drug-resistant. If they know the molecular path that an organism will take to become resistant to a new drug, our hope is that they can find ways to cut off that path,” RU expert Yousif Shamoo, who is also the principal investigator of the research, explains the goal of the project. The study is!
funded under a $1-million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). Healthcare experts believe that there is currently a great need for such studies, as antibiotics-resistance is starting to become a very large problem in hosp...
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