New antiviral antibiotic: Daunorubicin stops bacteriophages through premature cell death

Bacteria also produce molecules with an antiviral effect. Researchers at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) and Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ), together with colleagues from Marburg and Zurich, have investigated the antiviral molecule daunorubicin and deciphered its mode of action against vi...