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bioemerl · 3712 days ago · link · · parent · post: Teixobactin: A New Antibiotic From a New Platform?
It's always awesome to see new forms of antibiotics. If I were a company with the money, I would be stockpiling a good ten or twenty new/unique ways to kill bacteria and holding onto them until most current antibiotics are showing ineffective. Keep them off the market to ensure they don't get the same treatment current ones are. This is a testament to anyone today who thinks we haven't moved forward, or have slowed down in comparison to these "golden ages" of discovery.Had anyone stumbled on teixobactin in the 1950s, back in the golden age of antibiotic discovery, they could have easily spent their career on it.