Promising antibiotic candidates discovered in microbes deep in the Arctic Sea
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Promising antibiotic candidates discovered in microbes deep in the Arctic Sea

Antibiotics are the linchpin of modern medicine: without them, anyone with open wounds or needing to undergo surgery would be at constant risk of dangerous infections. Yet we continue to face a global antibiotics crisis, as more and more resistant strains of bacteria are evolving, while the rate of discovery of fundamentally new antibiotics has been much slower.