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| 2) Listen to the podcast by one of the authors of a paper which came out in October, 2008.
http://www.sciencefriday.com/program/archives/200810175 Click on the arrow under �Listen� on the left side of the page. Where were these antibiotics found? Why do they think they are produced by soil organisms? What needs to be done before these antibiotics are ready for human use/testing? Why is RNA polymerase a good target for treatment of tuberculosis? What is the structural mechanism of action? Why do you think combination therapy is effective in avoiding antibiotic resistance? |
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