Looking to Nature for Antibiotic Inspirations
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Bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacterial cells, employ an arsenal of chemical weapons. Microbiologist Vincent Fischetti of Rockefeller University describes how to use tricks learned from the phage in developing new antibiotics that may be effective even where others fail.
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Vincent Fischetti
Vincent Fischetti is a professor at the Laboratory of Bacterial Pathogenesis and Immunology at Rockefeller University in New York, New York.
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