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Microbes that live in fishes' slimy mucus coating could lead chemists to new antibiotic drugs

  • Written by Sandra Loesgen, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Oregon State University
Drug discovery can get an assist from what nature's already devised.Annie Spratt/Unsplash, CC BY

One day in the future, you may take a pill to treat an illness – and owe your recovery to the tiny microbes that flourish in the slippery layer of mucus that coats fishes.

It is critically important to find the next generation of antibiotics. The...

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