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Common as dirt: New antibiotic may conquer superbugs

This black iChip was developed by researchers at Northeastern University to grow bacteria that usually don't grow in the lab. They used it to get a potentially very powerful new antibiotic from bacteria living in this soil samples, from a field in Maine.
This black iChip was developed by researchers at Northeastern University to grow bacteria that usually don't grow in the lab. They used it to get a potentially very powerful new antibiotic from bacteria living in this soil samples, from a field in Maine.Slava Epstein / Northeastern University