drug-resistant superbugs

Plastic mulch used in strawberry cultivation, shown here, is only one example of plastic use in agriculture. Photo by Glysiak via Wikimedia Commons.
Soil introduced drug-resistant superbugs in the food supply from microplastics?
The chemical structure of the new antibiotic was designed by Moses and synthetically assembled by his lab. Dr. Thomas Fallon, Moses’ collaborator at the University of Newcastle, Australia, provided the shape-shifting bullvalene core. Moses says one commenter called the study “probably the ‘coolest’ and most complex natural product derivative paper I’ve come across.”
Fighting deadly infections with new shape-shifting antibiotics