Compound Discovered at Sea Shows Potency against Anthrax

Wednesday, July 17, 2013 - 16:50 in Biology & Nature

A team led by William Fenical at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego has discovered a new chemical compound from an ocean microbe in a preliminary research finding that could one day set the stage for new treatments for anthrax and other ailments such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).

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