New 'genome mining' technique streamlines discovery from nature
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 - 18:00
in Biology & Nature
In the new study researchers studied actinomycete bacteria, known sources of clinical antibiotics and anticancer agents. A newly developed method for microscopically extracting, or "mining," information from genomes could represent a significant boost in the search for new therapeutic drugs and improve science's understanding of basic functions such as how cells communicate with one another.