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Friday, June 17, 2011

New antibiotic fished out of sea

CHENNAI: For years, scientists at the Tuberculosis Research Centre (TRC) here have been digging in deserts and under the sea hoping to unearth chemical compounds that had the potential to be developed into drugs to fight tuberculosis. On Wednesday, they announced they had hit pay dirt at a coral reef off Rameswaram. From a soil sample obtained from under the sea there, the researchers isolated transitmycin, a novel antibiotic that could fight TB and HIV better than most drugs available today.
Posted by Sangeeta Narang at 5:05 AM

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