Recently published original research by Prof. Shaoqin Gong (Retina Research Foundation Edwin and Dorothy Gamewell Professor, Dept of Biomedical Engineering; Dept of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences) and colleagues has just been featured in Nature Nanotechnology’s News and Views. The work, which aims to develop a method for overcoming antibiotic resistance, uses multimodal nanoparticles to target bacterial defence mechanisms while enhancing innate immune response. The research promises to advance therapies for ocular infections, as the focus pathogen in this work, Staphylococcus aureus, is a common bacteria found in such infections.
You can read the news story here, and the published research by Zhu et al. here.