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A defense-related research agency reports 

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it’s time to work towards replacing antibiotics. 

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The agency reports the increased use of antibiotics 

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is creating super strains of bacteria resistant to treatment, 

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so now the agency is promoting the use of 

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nano-molecules instead. 

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With us now is Dr. Marc Siegel of the Fox News Medical A-Team. 

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You know, Dr. Siegel, here’s the thing: 

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I know there’s a lot of medical carp to go in this whole thing. 

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Basically, what they want to use these nano-particles for, 

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nano-molecules, is because they can tweak them, 

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they can adjust them to fight bacteria in different ways. 

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Is that right?

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Trace, that’s exactly right. 

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They can program them and put something in, 

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called interfering RNA, 

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with a program of the genetics so that the nano-particles, 

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sub-microscopic particles, 

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go zooming right to the affected tissue or bacteria or virus 

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and interfere with its genetic material and just knock it out. 

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And the reason that it’s being looked at, 

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the Department of Defense is looking at it for two reasons. 

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First of all, they’re worried about bio-terrorism, 

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bio-weaponry and are they gonna get us 

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with something we’re resistant to. 

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And the second reason is, I can tell you, out in the hospitals, 

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we have more and more and more drug-resistant bacteria. 

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It’s like they look for the combination to a fault. 

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When they find it, they reproduce it, 

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end up with more and more resistance. 

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We’re not making new antibiotics and we have a big problem 

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with resistant bugs. 

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So this is very exciting stuff, 

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but it’s very preliminary.