Developed by a team at Harvard, the synthetic compound cresomycin zaps the killer bacteria Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa, which can cause pneumonia.
Although cresomycin hasn’t yet undergone human trials, “our results show significantly improved inhibitory activity against a long list of pathogenic bacterial strains that kill more than a million people every year,” says Harvard professor Andrew Myers.
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