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The academy said many of today's antibiotics cure various diseases by blocking the function of bacterial ribosomes.
"Fifty percent of all antibiotics target the ribosome, and now we have the tools to begin looking at if there are other substances we can fit into different slots to block and disturb bacteria in our bodies," said Peter Brezinski, a member of the chemistry panel at the Royal Academy of Sciences in Stockholm.
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