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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Stuart Heritage

Scientists have named a new range of antimicrobials after Keanu Reeves. Here’s why that’s a mistake

Keanu Reeves at the John Wick 4 UK premiere.
Keanu Reeves at the John Wick 4 UK premiere. Photograph: Stuart Hardy/ABACAPRESS.COM/REX/Shutterstock

At this stage, Keanu Reeves is incredibly well versed at saving the world. In his time, Reeves has managed to save humanity from robots (The Matrix), vampires (Bram Stoker’s Dracula), Satan (The Devil’s Advocate), angels (Constantine) and a bus (Speed), among many others.

However, there is a chance these achievements will all be completely eclipsed in years to come by the latest project to bear the name Keanu Reeves: a collection of brand new antimicrobial nonribosomal lipopeptides developed by biomedical researchers at the Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology.

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