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    In soil-dwelling bacteria, scientists find a new weapon to fight drug-resistant superbugs

    by (Editors: For all needing. Also adds “By” to byline.), Los Angeles Times Feb 15, 2018 3 minutes

    It's a new class of antibiotic that promises to live up to its rough Latin translation: killer of bad guys.

    In a report published recently in the journal Nature Microbiology, researchers describe a never-before-seen antibiotic agent that vanquished several strains of multidrug-resistant bacteria. In rats, the agent - which the researchers dubbed malacidin - attacked and broke down the cell walls of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and cleared the animals' MRSA skin infections within a day.

    Malacidin is

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