A New Antibiotic Idea From An Old Source (opens in new tab)

As longtime readers will know, I am always ready to celebrate advances in antibiotic research. That’s for several good reasons, not least of which is that such advances are notoriously hard to come by. And of course they’re also extremely important from a public health perspective: we are under constant threat from pathogenic infections, and the organisms that cause them are getting steadily more resistant to our existing treatments. At this point the only people in the industrialized world w...