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Published online 28 November 2000 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news001130-5

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Evolution throws up new drugs

Chemistry is aping biology in the search for new antibiotics.

US chemists have taken a leaf out of nature's book in the arms race against bacteria. Just as strains of bacteria evolve resistance to antibiotics, K.

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