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Meet antivitamins. They may replace your antibiotics one day

Meet antivitamins. They may replace your antibiotics one day

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Antivitamins

Antivitamins

  • As we are moving past the antibiotic era due to rapid bacterial resistance, we need a new class of drugs to treat bacterial infections.
  • Antivitamins aren’t as well known as antibiotics, but were identified way back in 1930 by Sir Edward Mellenby, and were called ‘toxamins’.
  • Antivitamins disrupt the vitamins in a cell from functioning.

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Bacterial Cell Killers

Antivitamins are produced naturally as a way for a bacterial cell to kill another bacterial cell. The complex and important procedure is done in a seemingly hidden and mysterious way, with just one atom interrupting a complex chain of protons.

New research indicates that there is no harm to humans, and antivitamins can be configured to target pathogens without any side effects.

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