From the dirt in Maine ... comes the first new broad-spectrum antibiotic in 25 years. This is fantastic news, for several reasons:
- It is effective against all the currently scary drug-resistant bacteria.
- It's mechanism is inherently difficult for bacteria to develop resistance against.
- There's no known obstacle to large scale production.
Even better: the team who discovered this drug did so by inventing a new way to screen previously-unscreened naturally occurring organisms for antibiotic production. This breakthrough may well lead to
other antibiotics with novel mechanisms – exactly what the world needs right now.
It's difficult to overstate what an important development this is!
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