Ancient humans such as Neanderthals had bodily defences against bacteria that might help us treat infections nowadays SEBASTIAN WILLNOW/DDP/AFP via Getty Images
Reviving extinct antibiotic molecules encoded in the DNA of Neanderthals and Denisovans could provide a new weapon in the fight against antimicrobial resistance.
Last year, at the University of Pennsylvania and his colleagues reported on .
Now, de la Fuente and many of the same researchers have identified six more antibiotic peptides encoded in ancient mitochondrial DNA previously extracted from Neanderthals and Denisovans…
