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New chemistry in unusual bacteria displays drug-like activity

Where do drugs come from? Most clinical molecules are either produced by chemists in a laboratory, or naturally in living organisms. While synthetic chemistry is a pipeline to drug discovery, nature-made molecules continue to have an important role as drug templates. Certain soil bacteria called... click to read more

Grace Dekoker | Undergraduate Research Assistant at Washington University in St. Louis

Joshua Blodgett | Professor at Washington University in St. Louis

bacteria

cancer

drug discovery

actinomycetes

chemistry

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published on Mar 21, 2023

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