New Antibiotics Take Poke at Bacteria

July 25, 2001 at 9:52 am - More than 2 years ago

Imagine a roll of LifeSavers. Now, mentally shrink that stack of candy rings to a few nanometers in length, making it smaller than a cell.

A model of how nanobiotics (tubes) disrupt bacterial membranes. Ganz et al.

That image offers a sense of the unusual structure behind a potential new class of antibiotics developed by M. Reza Ghadiri of the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, Calif.,

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