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Published online 10 January 2000 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news000113-3
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Synthetic salvo scuppers superbugs
Potent artificial protein-like molecules that have no natural counterparts may soon enlarge the arsenal of antibiotics for fighting increasingly drug-resistant bacteria. Philip Ball reports.
A molecule with antibiotic properties that represents a major departure from most conventional antibiotics has been synthesized by chemists William DeGrado and colleagues from the University of Pennsylvania. They announce their findings in Journal of the American Chemical Society1.
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