Antibiotics are unique assassins
Monday, March 11, 2013 - 07:30
in Biology & Nature
In recent years, a body of publications in the microbiology field has challenged all previous knowledge of how antibiotics kill bacteria. "A slew of papers came out studying this phenomenon, suggesting that there is a general mechanism of killing by antibiotics," said Kim Lewis, University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Biology and director of Northeastern's Antimicrobial Discovery Center.