Nature Medicine | Spoonful of Medicine
Ribosome freeze frame offers new perspective on microbial defenses
With an estimated 175,000 deaths attributed to hospital-acquired infections each year in Europe alone and a dwindling arsenal of effective antibiotics to combat these superbugs, researchers have been striving to develop new antibacterial medicines. But these efforts have been hampered by scientists’ limited understanding of the basic molecular machinery that microbes use to thwart medicine’s best weapons.
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