Against superbugs: Russian science discovered the source of new antibiotics

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Russian scientists found a potentially inexhaustible source of new antibiotics in Baikal organisms which following millions of years of evolution became resilient to the most extreme conditions.
The antibiotics we know today don't work anymore. That's why superbugs (antibiotic resistant bacteria) kill some 700 thousand people each year.
There is hope for mankind though: little Amphipoda crustaceans from Lake Baikal may be the answer.
Turns out... there are actinobacteria living on the crustaceans that produce exactly what researchers worldwide have been looking for - new antibiotics.