IU-Designed Probe Opens New Path for Drug Development Against Leading STD
Wednesday, December 11, 2013 - 15:40
in Biology & Nature
Biochemical sleuthing by an Indiana University graduate student has ended a nearly 50-year-old search to find a megamolecule in bacterial cell walls commonly used as a target for antibiotics, but whose presence had never been identified in the bacterium responsible for the most commonly reported sexually transmitted disease in the United States.