Tuesday, February 13, 2018

DRUGS FROM DIRT

  US scientists have discovered a new family of antibiotics in soil samples.
  The natural compounds could be used to combat hard-to-treat infections, the team at Rockefeller University hopes.
  Tests show the compounds, called malacidins, annihilate several bacterial diseases that have become resistant to most existing antibiotics, including the superbug MRSA.

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