Antibiotics That Only Partly Block Protein Machinery Allow Germs To Poison Themselves

Thursday, October 25, 2012 - 12:01 in Health & Medicine

Powerful antibiotics that scientists and physicians thought stop the growth of harmful bacteria by completely blocking their ability to make proteins actually allow the germs to continue producing certain proteins -- which may help do them in.

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