{"id":1882,"date":"2024-07-11T09:49:04","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T21:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/go\/?p=1882"},"modified":"2024-07-15T10:00:42","modified_gmt":"2024-07-14T22:00:42","slug":"surprise-discovery-with-big-scientific-potential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/go\/surprise-discovery-with-big-scientific-potential\/","title":{"rendered":"Surprise discovery with big scientific potential"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/go\/files\/2024\/07\/Microorganism-image-940.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/go\/files\/2024\/07\/Microorganism-image-940-300x223.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1883\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/go\/files\/2024\/07\/Microorganism-image-940-300x223.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/go\/files\/2024\/07\/Microorganism-image-940-768x572.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/go\/files\/2024\/07\/Microorganism-image-940-403x300.png 403w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/go\/files\/2024\/07\/Microorganism-image-940.png 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An international team of researchers, led by <strong>Professor Peter Fineran<\/strong> and including <strong>Dr Nils Birkholz<\/strong> as lead author (both Genetics Otago members) have made a breakthrough in antibiotic alternative treatments for bacterial infections. <\/p>\n<p>Check out the Otago University <a href=\"https:\/\/www.otago.ac.nz\/news\/newsroom\/surprise-discovery-with-big-scientific-potential\">Newsroom article<\/a> for more details, or read the full paper published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-024-07644-1.epdf?sharing_token=4bRjGh3gqkEB8_vtlPnbaNRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0PJRw4X5EoZtOOHPJKoy-JJ9rmEJX9K2SmYljuVUYUyZzdGz-U--sspnsI1pJRJympBstyFz7vijuyNbN5NmSeBOydMHpoUyY2amhp-tP50YDNL2mmejGRqtBEXLsMsJXM%3D\">Nature<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Birkholz N<\/strong>, Kamata K, Feussner M, Wilkinson ME, Samaniego CC, Migur A, et al. Phage anti-CRISPR control by an RNA- and DNA-binding helix\u2013turn\u2013helix protein. <em>Nature<\/em>. 2024;1\u20138.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international team of researchers, led by Professor Peter Fineran and including Dr Nils Birkholz as lead author (both Genetics Otago members) have made a breakthrough in antibiotic alternative treatments for bacterial infections. Check out the Otago University Newsroom article for more details, or read the full paper published in Nature! Birkholz N, Kamata K, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37560,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37560"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}