NEOMYCIN

Researchers find antibiotics that circumvent bacterial resistance

More than half of all antibiotics inhibit the growth of pathogenic bacteria by interfering with their protein biosynthesis - a complex process catalyzed by the ribosome, which is akin to "a 3D printer that makes all the proteins in a cell," Polikanov said. Antibiotics bind to bacterial ribosomes and disrupt this protein-manufacturing process, causing bacterial invaders to die.