Closing Gaps in Health and Care

  • UIC researchers find nearly resistance-impossible dual-action antibiotic

    Aug 5, 2024 4:00 pm
    UIC’s Yury Polikanov, Nora Vázquez-Laslop and Alexander Mankin collaborated on testing the new antibiotic. (Photo: Dmitrii Travin)

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    • UIC’s Yury Polikanov, Nora Vázquez-Laslop and Alexander Mankin collaborated on testing the new antibiotic. (Photo: Dmitrii Travin)

    University of Illinois Chicago researchers working with a class of drugs called macrolones found they can fight bacteria in two ways: by interfering with protein production or by corrupting DNA structure.