Soil bacteria hormone discovery provides fertile ground for new antibiotics

Monash University
  • Mechanism for control of antibiotic production in soil bacteria is visualised for the first time by scientists at University of Warwick and Monash University.
  • Research reported in Nature could lead to improved manufacturing of existing antibiotics, and open up opportunities to discover new ones.
  • The majority of clinically used antibiotics are derived from soil bacteria, but can be hard to find because their production is switched off in laboratory cultures
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