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\nSome of humanity’s favorite antibiotics are starting to lose their mojo, in the face of smart, sneaky, and rapidly-evolving bacteria. To find new drugs to combat these superbugs, scientists are looking in some weird new places, like...\nSome of humanity’s favorite antibiotics are starting to lose their mojo, in the face of smart, sneaky, and rapidly-evolving bacteria. To find new drugs to combat these superbugs, scientists are looking in some weird new places, like cockroaches’ brains, the blood of alligators, and more.\n
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antibiotics, drugs, alligators, fungi, bacteria, medicine, host cells, work, scientists, humans, organisms, evolution, blood, fungus, e. coli, resistance, white blood cells, cockroaches, microbes, new mexico
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superbugs, mrsa, penicillin, peptides, brains, neuropeptides, cave soils, lechuguilla cave, sea floor, deep sea, sediments, antibacterial, health, biology, sci show, hank green, science, lab trials, exploring strange, promising leads, promising, strains, found, resistant, living, live, places, face, kill, development, starting, find, problem, immune system, body, finding, cockroach
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