On: A broad-spectrum synthetic antibiotic that does no...

[Varloom]

If it does not invoke bacterial resistance, its most likely less specific to the bacteria and can harm human cells.

(think bleach, kills bacteria and there is no resistance, but also damage regular human cells)

[pshirshov → Varloom]

Well, from what I can remember, the claims were that Epimerox targets a very specific protein which human cells does not have. Also it was claimed that said protein is very sensitive to conformations and stops working even after very little modifications.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epimerox

[eternalban → pshirshov]

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

That's all hn has had on the topic (includes yours). A comment mentions in passing that it is not yet used "for various reasons".