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Not as fab as we thought

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Ever since penicillin was isolated from mould, it has been assumed that naturally occurring antibiotics are good starting points for drug-discovery programmes. The latest study shows that this isn't always true.

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Figure 1: Sure of the cure?

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  1. Soumaya Zlitni and Eric D. Brown are in the Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, and the Michael G. DeGroote Institute of Infectious Disease Research, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario L8N 3Z5, Canada. ebrown@mcmaster.ca,

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