Team:Northwestern/Description

What is the problem we are trying to solve?

Antibiotics are among the most frequently administered drugs in human medicine. However, incorrect dosing and failure to complete the prescribed course have contributed to microbes becoming resistant. In 2014, the World Health Organization classified antibiotic resistance as a global epidemic. Inactivating resistance genes via Cas9 nuclease-mediated cleavage has been shown to be an effective means of combating this epidemic; however, methods of in vivo delivery are currently limited.