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  • Antibiotic breakthrough: Team overcomes gram-negative bacterial defenses

    May 10, 2017 12:00 pm by Diana YatesResearch
    graduate student Alfredo Garcia, graduate student Riley Svec, chemistry professor Paul Hergenrother, graduate student Bryon Drown, graduate student Michelle Richter and postdoctoral researcher Andrew Riley

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    • graduate student Alfredo Garcia, graduate student Riley Svec, chemistry professor Paul Hergenrother, graduate student Bryon Drown, graduate student Michelle Richter and postdoctoral researcher Andrew Riley

    Researchers have created a molecular Trojan horse that can penetrate gram-negative bacteria, a problem that had stalled development of new antibiotics against these increasingly drug-resistant microbes.