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Published online 18 October 2006 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news061016-9
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Grammatical rules spell out new drugs
Learning the language of antibiotics could help fight superbugs.
By shuffling protein segments like words in a sentence, researchers have created what they hope is a language for finding potent new antibiotics.
Such drugs are sorely needed because of the rise of 'superbugs' that are resistant to most existing drugs.
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