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December 12th, 2006, 19:42 PM
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2006/12/12/paint_hea.html?category=health&guid=20061212120000
Spiky Paint Kills Bugs on Contact
Tracy Staedter, Discovery News
Dec. 12, 2006 — It's cold and flu season and soon the best elixir for combating viruses may not come in a child-proof bottle, but in a paint can.
A new antimicrobial coating, which can be applied like paint to any surface or textile, has been shown to kill many types of human pathogens, including the deadly Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus bacteria, as well as influenza virus, which kills more than 35,000 Americans each year.
"We found that, depending on what bacteria or virus you work with, we have from a 100- to over a 10,000-fold reduction in bacterial or viral count," said Alexander M. Klibanov professor of chemistry and bioengineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Spiky Paint Kills Bugs on Contact
Tracy Staedter, Discovery News
Dec. 12, 2006 — It's cold and flu season and soon the best elixir for combating viruses may not come in a child-proof bottle, but in a paint can.
A new antimicrobial coating, which can be applied like paint to any surface or textile, has been shown to kill many types of human pathogens, including the deadly Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus bacteria, as well as influenza virus, which kills more than 35,000 Americans each year.
"We found that, depending on what bacteria or virus you work with, we have from a 100- to over a 10,000-fold reduction in bacterial or viral count," said Alexander M. Klibanov professor of chemistry and bioengineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.