Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬<p>New <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/antibiotic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antibiotic</span></a> that kills <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/drugresistant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>drugresistant</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/bacteria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bacteria</span></a> discovered in technician’s <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/garden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>garden</span></a><br>It targets bacteria’s protein-making factory, the <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/ribosome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ribosome</span></a>, in a way that other antibiotic drugs don’t. Ribosome is an attractive antibiotic target because bacteria don’t easily develop resistance to <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/drugs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>drugs</span></a> targeting the structure. In studies, <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/lariocidin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lariocidin</span></a> slowed the growth of a range of common bacterial <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/pathogens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pathogens</span></a>, including many multidrug-resistant strains. <br><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00945-z" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nature.com/articles/d41586-025</span><span class="invisible">-00945-z</span></a><br><a href="https://archive.ph/NHtJh" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">archive.ph/NHtJh</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>