Microscopic technique to observe antibiotics live in action
Tuesday, October 25, 2016 - 05:31
in Biology & Nature
A new microscopic technique is enabling scientists to observe the antibiotic daptomycine live in action. This marks an exciting first, because even though doctors have been prescribing this antibiotic for over a decade, its precise mechanisms have remained unclear. Researchers at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), Bonn University and Ruhr University Bochum have now described this mechanism in the forthcoming issue of PNAS.