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Scientists Recreated an Antibiotic Molecule Found in a Volcanic Crater


Antibiotics discovered in the soil of a Cameroon volcano half a century ago have finally been reverse-engineered by Japanese researchers, giving medical scientists a new potential drug in the fight against infection.

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