Michael VanNieuwenhze, a Standiford H. Cox Professor of Chemistry at IU Bloomington, is among the Indiana University researchers that collaborated on the study and invention of a new tool that highlights real-time tracking of structured activity from bacterial cell walls.
News at IU Bloomington released an article that explores how this new tool invention can advance research for new antibiotics.
From the study the article explores the design of 'new class of probes', called rotor-fluorogenic D-amino acids, or RfDAAs, which a patent has been filed by Indiana University on this technology.
"This new technology takes advantages of specific cellular enzymes to stick colored dyes -- or 'probes' -- into the walls of bacterial cells" - Dr. Michael VanNieuwenhze
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