Life's extremists may be an untapped source of antibacterial drugs

Friday, November 21, 2014 - 14:50 in Biology & Nature

Life's extremists, a family of microbes called Archaea, may be an untapped source of new antibacterial drugs. That conclusion arises from the discovery of the first antibacterial gene in this ancient lineage.

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