A new understanding of how some antibiotics work

“Tetracyclines are a versatile and popular class of antibiotics, but how they actually work has been poorly understood. Researchers in the lab of Yale’s Christopher Bunick have uncovered how these drugs bind to and kill bacteria — findings that could help develop better, safer antibiotics.

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