Antibacterial drugs: Discovering antibiotics through soil metagenomics

Nature Reviews Drug Discovery 17, 240 (2018). doi:10.1038/nrd.2018.36 Author: Katharine H. Wrighton The identification of bacterial natural products with antimicrobial properties has been hampered by the fact that many bacteria cannot be cultured in the laboratory, and those that can do not produce all of their natural products in this setting. Hover et al. have devised a
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