“Warwick University scientists are among those to have discovered a powerful new antibiotic with the potential to fight drug-resistant superbugs like MRSA.

Chemists from the university, along with a team from Monash University, Australia, said the compound, called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, was found ‘hiding in plain sight’ as part of the natural process that produces known antibiotic methylenomycin A.

Researchers said it is more than 100 times stronger than its parent compound.

They added it could one day play a key role in tackling infections that currently claim around 1.1 million lives each year.”

From BBC.