Drug kills cells through novel mechanism

Thursday, December 10, 2009 - 13:49 in Biology & Nature

MIT and Boston University researchers have discovered that the drug hydroxyurea kills bacteria by inducing them to produce molecules toxic to themselves - a conclusion that raises the possibility of finding new antibiotics that use similar mechanisms.

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