IIT Roorkee researchers develop nanobiotic platform

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Category : Science and Tech Published on: May 16 2022

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A research team from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee employed a strategy to develop a multimodal nanobiotic platform which combats bacterial pathogens.According to a statement issued by IIT Roorkee,
It uses synergistic antibacterial activity of a food-grade peptide (an antimicrobial peptide from Generally Recognized As Safe- GRAS category bacterium, Pediococcus pentosaceus) to mitigate multidrug-resistant bacterial pathogens.
The technology platform has been shown to have applications in the health sector and food packaging

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IIT Roorkee researchers develop nanobiotic platform