Synthetic peptoids hold forth promise for new antibiotics
Date: 11.3.2008
**Drug-resistant** bacterial infections are a growing concern, and much research has been devoted to finding new classes of **antibiotics** to fight them.
Stanford researchers may have found some answers in **peptoids**, a class of manmade molecules very similar to natural proteins that play an important role in the human immune system.
"Stanford University":[ http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2008/march5/peptoids-030508.html]
