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Bacteria: The Cure for Cancer?

Jun 15, 2007

Scripps and UCSD researchers teamed up with JGI to sequence the genome of Salinispora tropica, hoping to mine the 10% of its code that is involved in producing natural antibiotic and anti-cancer agents. The results were released this week in the early online edition of PNAS. One of S. tropica's products, “salinosporamide A,” is presently being tested in clinical trials for treating multiple myeloma and solid tumors.

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