Double-Duty Antibiotic for Tuberculosis from Mother Nature

Although the rapid strides made in technology have produced increasingly targeted drugs, Mother Nature still has a lot to offer as far as medicine is concerned. Pyridomycin, a substance produced by non-pathogenic soil bacteria, has been found to be a potent antibiotic against a related strain of bacteria that cause tuberculosis. The EPFL scientists who discovered this unexpected property now have a better understanding of how the molecule functions. Its ...

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