Superbugs, one of the top 10 threats to global public health according to the World Health Organisation (WHO), may soon be a thing of the past after Australian researchers developed a new way to eradicate antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Researchers from Monash University in Victoria have discovered a new method that could potentially destroy the superbugs, prevent antibiotic resistance and reduce antibiotic intake to limit any non-targeted bacteria from coming into contact with the medicine and developing resistance. “This is a stunning finding in how we deliver medicine and how the medicine we take impacts us in the future,” said the project’s lead researcher, Dr Hsin-Hui Shen of Monash University’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering. The researcher’s new treatment kills superbugs using antibiotics that superbugs have not yet developed a high resistance to in combination with nanoparticles. The method developed by Shen and Prof. Jian Li of the university’s Biomedicine Discovery Institute and …