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Eric Oldfield, Wei Zhu, and Yonghui Zhan, University of Illinois

Caption: Chemistry professor Eric Oldfield (in blue, center), graduate student Wei Zhu (left), research scientist Yonghui Zhang, University of Illinois, and their colleagues at UC San Diego discovered a compound that cured drug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection in mice.

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