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September 16, 2015

Genome mining effort discovers 19 new natural products in 4 years
Champaign IL (SPX) Sep 15, 2015
It took two postdoctoral researchers, a lab technician, four undergraduates and their faculty advisors only four years - a blink of an eye in pharmaceutical terms - to scour a collection of 10,000 bacterial strains and isolate the genes responsible for making 19 unique, previously unknown phosphonate natural products, researchers report. Each of these products is a potential new drug. One of them has already been identified as an antibiotic. The researchers report their findings in the Proceedings ... read more

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