Genetic Drones Can Kill or Cripple Staph Bacteria

Drones have been hyped by Amazon as the future of package delivery, but nanoscale drones called genomic islands have been shuttling genetic packages between bacteria for a long, long time. Unsurprisingly, genomic islands often deliver cargo that is good for bacteria, and not so good for bacterial hosts. (Genomic islands are also called pathogenicity islands.)To turn the tables on bacteria, scientists based at New York University School of Medicine have devised a way to convert genetic drones. In