Potential Treatments From Cryptic Genes
Monday, June 2, 2008 - 07:35
in Biology & Nature
Big pharma gave up on soil bacteria as a source of antibiotics too soon, according to research in Microbiology. Scientists have been mining microbial genomes for new natural products that may have applications in the treatment of MRSA and cancer and have made some exciting discoveries.
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