Starting with Mother Nature's designs will speed up critical development of new antibiotics
- Written by Natalie Jones Slivinski, Virology Research Scientist, University of Washington
High-tech ways to scan nature's own creations.Caleb Foster/Shutterstock.com“I did not invent penicillin. Nature did that. I only discovered it by accident.” - Alexander Fleming
Natural products have been the basis of medicine for centuries. Aspirin is based on a chemical in willow tree bark. Morphine comes from the opium plant....
