Drug-Resistant Pneumonia Sensitive to Neutrophil Modulation

An increasing problem in cases of bacterial pneumonia is antibiotic resistance. While immune-stimulating therapies can help the body kill the bacteria, they can also cause inflammation that damages and weakens lung tissue. In a paper ( “Inhibition of IP6K1 suppresses neutrophil-mediated pulmonary damage in bacterial pneumonia ”) in Science Translational Medicine , researchers at Boston Children's Hospital describe a technique that provides enhanced bacterial killi