Credit: Professor Martin Lear, University of Lincoln
Breakthrough reveals new ways to combat drug-resistant bacteria and fight cancer. After 20 years of dedicated research, scientists have cracked the chemical code of an incredibly complex ‘anti-tumour antibiotic’ known to be highly effective against cancer cells as well as drug-resistant bacteria, and have reproduced it synthetically in the lab for the first time.
This major breakthrough and world-first could hail a new era in the design and production of new antibiotics and anticancer agents.
The ‘super substance’ – kedarcidin – was discovered in its natural form by a pharmaceutical c...
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