Make antibiotics, that is, substances that kill germs.

制造抗菌素，也就是杀菌物质。

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And since we figured out that bacteria can make us sick, we've searched for better antibiotics.

而自从知道了细菌能让我们生病后，我们一直都在寻找着更好的抗生素。

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Other work in our lab has shown that honey can make MRSA more sensitive to antibiotics such as oxacillin -- effectively reversing antibiotic resistance.

我们实验室的其它工作显示麦卢卡蜂蜜能使MRSA对苯唑西林等抗生素敏感，有效地逆转抗生素耐受性。

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Kosan is using genetic engineering techniques to steal the blueprints that nature uses to make antibiotics.

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The finding helped solve a long-standing mystery of how soil bacteria could make such antibiotics and other druglike chemicals, called polyketides.

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It is more expensive to make than some antibiotics because it must be synthesized, not mass-produced by fermentation.

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