A team led by UCL and Imperial College London researchers has shown for the first time how life-saving antibiotics called polymyxins pierce the armour of harmful bacteria. The findings, published in the journal Nature Microbiology , could lead to new treatments for bacterial infections – especially urgent since drug-resistant infections already kill more than a million people a year. Polymyxins were discovered more than 80 years ago and are used as a last-resort treatment for infections caused

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