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The Biological Physics (BioP) group focuses on solving key intellectual and practical problems in the physics of biological systems and the underlying properties of soft matter.
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Startling images show how antibiotic pierces bacteria’s armour published in Nature Microbiology
A team led by the Hoogenboom Lab at UCL and Imperial College London researchers has shown for the first time how life-saving antibiotics called polymyxins pierce the armour of harmful bacteria.
