With its effects costing 18 billion dollars annually just in the United States, any discovery attempting to stop antibiotic resistance in bacteria is warmly welcomed. This time however, the news is not about a new antibiotic, but about taking advantage of bacterial clustered, regularly interspaced, short palindromic repeat (CRISPR) DNA sequences

US Government health officials have just reported a national outbreak of Salmonella food poisoning in 42 states, totaling up to nearly 400 cases by Thursday.