Teixobactin and the hope it represents for fighting antibiotic resistance And then there’s teixobactin, a still-experimental drug that may herald a new era of antibiotic discovery. A team of researchers at Northeastern University’s Antimicrobial Discovery Center reportedlast year in the journal Nature that they had discovered a compound in soil unlike any found before. Teixobactin was highly effective in killing such common bacterial troublemakers as Clostridium […]