http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13002-scrambled-polymers-kill-drugresistan
t-bacteria.html

"Scrambled-up" polymers can kill bacteria, and may offer hope in beating
problems of antibiotic drug resistance, suggests a new study.

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin, in Madison, US, had been
working on making molecules that mimic the short proteins known as
"host-defence peptides".

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