Multiple antibiotic resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacterium

A new way to in­fil­trate (and de­stroy) some of the dead­liest drug-re­sis­tant bugs

About four years ago, Ruben Tom­masi, the gre­gar­i­ous sci­en­tif­ic chief of an­tibi­otics start­up En­ta­sis, walked in­to a meet­ing with his top chemist and top bi­ol­o­gist to chew over an­oth­er batch of un­chang­ing re­sults.

“It felt like we were run­ning the same ex­per­i­ment over and over,” Tom­masi told End­points News. “We had all sort of come to that point in time where we felt like we were bang­ing our heads against the wall.”

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