{"id":224266,"date":"2025-10-30T13:04:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T18:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/powerful-new-antibiotic-was-hiding-in-plain-sight-for-decades"},"modified":"2025-10-30T13:04:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T18:04:08","slug":"powerful-new-antibiotic-was-hiding-in-plain-sight-for-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/powerful-new-antibiotic-was-hiding-in-plain-sight-for-decades","title":{"rendered":"Powerful New Antibiotic Was \u2018Hiding in Plain Sight\u2019 For Decades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/powerful-new-antibiotic-was-hiding-in-plain-sight-for-decades.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have just identified a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/promising-new-antibiotics-could-be-hiding-in-our-gut-microbiomes\">powerful new antibiotic<\/a> \u2013 in a significant discovery made not by breaking new ground, but by revisiting familiar territory.<\/p>\n<p>The compound, pre-methylenomycin C lactone, was discovered by a team from Warwick University in the UK and Monash University in Australia. While it\u2019s never been spotted before, it comes from a type of bacteria that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/that-rAIn-smell-turns-out-we-re-smelling-the-circle-of-life\">scientists have studied for decades<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Potentially, it could help fight bacteria that have become <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/ancient-killer-is-rapidly-becoming-resistant-to-antibiotics-warns-study\">increasingly resistant<\/a> to modern treatments \u2013 and it\u2019s actually an intermediate chemical that\u2019s created during the process of making another antibiotic, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Methylenomycin_A\">methylenomycin A<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have just identified a powerful new antibiotic \u2013 in a significant discovery made not by breaking new ground, but by revisiting familiar territory. The compound, pre-methylenomycin C lactone, was discovered by a team from Warwick University in the UK and Monash University in Australia. While it\u2019s never been spotted before, it comes from a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}