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"Game-changing" synthesized antibiotic successfully treats infections for the first time
Back in 2015, a team of scientists discovered an exciting new antibiotic called teixobactin. Now an international team of researchers has, for the first time, successfully synthesized the compound and used it to treat a bacterial infection in mice. This is an important milestone in the quest to develop a new antibiotic in the war against antibiotic-resistant superbugs.
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Let's not feed this one to livestock and make it useless within a decade.