Complex sentence: Teixobactin is the first novel antibiotic with drug potential isolated from bacteria in decades, and appears to represent a new class of antibiotics, raising hopes that the new isolation techniques employed could lead to further antibiotic discoveries.
Split into simpler sentences: Teixobactin is the first novel antibiotic with drug potential isolated from bacteria in decades. It appears to represent a new class of antibiotics, raising hopes that the new isolation techniques employed could lead to further antibiotic discoveries.