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Scientists Bring Back 160 Million Year Old Proteins and Find Some Beat Modern Ones Against Superbugs

Researchers reconstructed antimicrobial peptides from lactoferrin, an immune protein that dates back about 160 million years to the ancestor of placental mammals. Some of the revived peptides were more potent against drug resistant bacteria than versions in certain living species, thanks to a single mutation.