Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have discovered an efficient process to discover new “enediyne natural products” from soil microbes. This could further be developed into extremely potent anticancer drugs.
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Scientists from the Florida campus of the Scripps Research Institute have discovered an efficient process to discover new “enediyne natural products” from soil microbes. This could further be developed into extremely potent anticancer drugs.
According to Phys.org, the study highlights the role of microbial natural products as abundant sources of new drug leads. The discovery involves prioritizing microbes from the TSRI strain collection and focuses on ones that are genetically predisposed to produce specific families of said products.
TSRI professor Ben Shen, the lead author of the study, said this process saves time and resources…
