Scientific Frontline<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Synthetic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Synthetic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/biologists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>biologists</span></a> at Rice University are embarking on a three-year project to create “<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/genetically" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>genetically</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/encoded" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>encoded</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/antibiotics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antibiotics</span></a>,” strands of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RNA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RNA</span></a> that bacteria will readily copy and share that will selectively kill only <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/disease" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disease</span></a>-causing, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pathogenic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pathogenic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bacteria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bacteria</span></a>.<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Biology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Biology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Microbiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Microbiology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sflorg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sflorg</span></a><br><a href="https://www.sflorg.com/2023/03/bio03132301.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">sflorg.com/2023/03/bio03132301</span><span class="invisible">.html</span></a></p>