An arsenic-containing compound produced by a soil bacterium shows promise as a broad-spectrum antibiotic. Research by the Berkeley Center for Structural Biology’s Collaborative Crystallography program demonstrated arsinothricin’s effectiveness against gram-negative and gram-positive bacteria. https://biosciences.lbl.gov/2019/04/24/bcsb-helps-characterize-new-arsenic-based-antibiotic/
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