Make antibiotics, that is, substances that kill germs.

制造抗菌素，也就是杀菌物质。

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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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