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MRSA bacteria is a virulent bacteria that breeds in hospitals, killing patients who are recovering from surgery or other ailments. But now we can create MRSA-free hospitals, by painting them with a special substance that kills MRSA without antibiotics.
Scientists fabricate a paint that destroys deadly MRSA bacteria
Seeded on Tue Aug 17, 2010 9:10 AM EDT
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A group of biotech researchers created the paint by knitting together carbon nanotubes with lysostaphin, an enzyme that slices open cell walls and kills them. Lysostaphin is a naturally-occurring substance that bacteria developed to combat other kinds of bacteria.
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