Researchers engineer E. coli to produce new forms of popular antibiotic

Friday, May 29, 2015 - 15:30 in Biology & Nature

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.

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