Engineers Turn E. coli Into Tiny Factories for Producing New Forms of Popular Antibiotic
Friday, May 29, 2015 - 14:00
in Physics & Chemistry
In Science Advances, University at Buffalo researchers will report that they have managed to turn E. coli into tiny factories for producing new forms of the popular antibiotic erythromycin -- including three that were shown in the lab to kill drug-resistant bacteria.