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Published online 15 August 2005 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news050815-1
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Bacteria designed to make new antibiotics
Approach may produce tools to fight drug-resistant infections.
Scientists have overcome an important hurdle in the race to develop new antibiotics: they have made bacteria efficiently churn out chemicals that could prove to be useful drugs.
Over the past few decades, bacteria have evolved to resist our antibiotics.
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