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Biodefense benefits.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
SUSAN WRIGHT'S ARTICLE IN THE November/December 2004 Bulletin ("Taking Biodefense Too Far") highlights the "billions for dubious biodefense" and mentions experiments performed under the guise of biodefense that have drawn domestic and international criticism.
There's another side to biodefense research that deserves highlighting--the benefits of basic research. Recently chemists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign published a creative way to overcome antibiotic resistance. They used a small molecule to make bacteria eject the acquired pieces of DNA that cause antibiotic resistance, via the bacteria's own natural processes. Once that small piece of DNA is eliminated, the bacteria were treated successfully with standard, inexpensive antibiotics. They did it without using any of the biological agents regulated by the Centers for Disease ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Biodefense benefits.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)