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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Aug 21.
Published in final edited form as: Nature. 2014 Feb 27;506(7489):436–437. doi: 10.1038/506436a

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meant to represent a pendulum swinging between the beautifully complex natural products on the left and the simple synthetics. Over the past several decades interest in the pharmaceutical companies has tended more towards the synthetics because they are easier to make and cheap, 75% of approved antibacterials over the past 40 years have been natural products though and the N&V covers a semi-synthetic approach using some modern methodology.