...AN ALTERNATIVE (star-shaped polymer) to antibiotics, which can fight and rip off even drug-resistant superbug's cell wall, is on the way.

P.S. IN ALL EXPERIMENTS, the star-shaped polymers have been able to kill their targeted bacteria. Interestingly, even generation after generation do not develop resistance to the polymers. Quite assuringly, it does not enter and affect normal healthy cells unlike the conventional antibiotics.

The star-shaped polymer is structurally nanoengineered antimicrobial peptide polymer (SNAPP).

Why The Science World Is Freaking Out Over This 25-Year-Old's Answer to Antibiotic Resistance:
https://www.sciencealert.com/the-science-world-s-freaking-out-over-this-25-year-old-s-solution-to-antibiotic-resistance

Killing superbugs with star-shaped polymers, not antibiotics: https://phys.org/news/2016-09-superbugs-star-shaped-polymers-antibiotics.amp

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