A team from the John Innes Centre, that specialises in plant and microbial science, said they had proven that by taking a short stretch of DNA from a bacterium and delivering it with an existing antibiotic they could switch off drug resistance.
“The DNA sequence acts as a decoy, disrupting gene expression and blocking resistance,” Michael McArthur of the Norwich-based institute said. “We are putting genetic information directly into drugs.”
Commercially, the new approach could be attractive to drug manufacturers, since it may allow existing antibiotics to be patented as a new medicine when they are combined with a decoy. New science has a much better chance of becoming main stream if the pharmaceutical companies can make money off of it!!!!!