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IMAGE: Anushree Chatterjee working with graduate student Dana Stamo in her lab at CU Boulder within the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering. view more
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When disease outbreaks happen, response time in developing and distributing treatments is crucial to saving lives. Unfortunately, developing custom drugs as countermeasures is often a slow and difficult process.
But researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have created a platform that can develop effective and highly specific peptide nucleic acid therapies for use against any bacteria within just one week. The work is detailed in Nature