Joseph beat me to it: there's a Nature article about platensimycin, an antibiotic that inhibits lipid biosynthesis in Gram positive bacteria. While it's not in human trials yet, it's always good to have another antibiotic that's effective against MRSA and VRE. Now, if it only worked against Acinetobacter...
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Let us hope that this new article in Nature turns
out to be as important as it seems.
In a recent publication, scientists from Merck report on
title="Wikipedia link"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platensimycin" rel="tag">platensimycin,
"Platensimycin: Putative New Class of Antibiotic Medication"
Scientists from Merck report on a previously unknown class of antibiotic.