Reseachers discover new insights for antibiotic drug development: "In two articles published in the current online issue of Nature Chemical Biology, researchers describe an approach that is more efficient--and environmentally friendly--in developing new antibiotics, those needed to kill the increasing number of infections resistant to multiple drugs.

'We're striving to create new drugs that can have a positive impact on the growing threat of infectious diseases,' says Robert Fecik, Ph.D., an assistant professor of Medicinal Chemistry at the University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy and one of the lead authors of the study. 'This type of research can help us make new antibiotic molecules.' "