A team led by William Fenical at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego has discovered the new chemical compound from an ocean microbe.Reuters.
Researchers have discovered a unique antibiotic in the seafloor mud off California's coast that may potentially kill anthrax."The real importance of this work is the fact that anthracimycin has a new and unique chemical structure, said Fenical, who added that the finding is a basic research discovery, which could lead to testing and development, and eventually a drug.
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