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Drug Discovery

Bacteria have an unusual ability to resist chemically unrelated antimicrobials, including ones they never encountered in nature. We found that this ability is largely due to the presence of Multidrug Resistance Pumps ...

Prof. Kim Lewis

Faculty Research in the News	Professor Kim Lewis ANTIBIOTIC BOOST: Compound from barberry plant inactivates bacterial pumps, allowing antibiotics to do their job. Chemical and Engineering News Vol 78 (8). --> Go to Chem. Engineer. News website
	MICROBIOLOGY: New Method for Culturing Bacteria "In work reported on page 1127, researchers have managed to grow in the lab several strains of previously unculturable beach-growing bacteria--an advance that may provide a new means of exploring the vast diversity of microbial species. The key to their success: transplanting not just the organisms but their whole sandy neighborhood along with them". Science 296:1000 --> Download PDF
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Drug Discovery Faculty & Labs

• Slava Epstein

• Kim Lewis
• Jim Manning
• Jacqueline Piret

• Susan Powers-Lee
• Michail Sitkovsky

• Phyllis Strauss

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