Gateway enzyme for chemicals from catnip to cancer drug
Scientists have discovered an enzyme used in nature to make powerful chemicals from catnip to a cancer drug, vinblastine
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News The activity of a bacterial effector protein seen in molecular detail
Many plant and animal pathogens deploy effector proteins as part of their ‘molecular arsenal’ to facilitate infection and colonisation of their hosts. New research has revealed the structure of a bacterial effector molecule bound to its target protein in the host
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News Key milestone towards the development of a new clinically useful antibiotic
Scientists have identified the genes necessary for making a highly potent and clinically unexploited antibiotic in the fight against multi-resistant pathogens
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News New screen for safer food crops
John Innes Centre scientists are working on a way to screen crop plants for toxic accumulation
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News Scientists make TB bug suicidal
Scientists have identified a new class of drug target that tricks tuberculosis bacteria into suicidal self-poisoning
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News New efforts to counter ramularia
A project to combat a newly emerging disease of barley is being launched, which will pull together the efforts of plant scientists, breeders and industry to prevent this disease establishing and help UK farmers produce barley cost-effectively without additional impact on the environment
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News International cooperation to produce novel animal vaccines from plants
A new project is being launched that will develop a rapid plant-based system to produce and assess the capacity of different proteins to act as vaccines against important diseases of livestock such as avian influenza and blue tongue
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News Skin colour studies on tadpoles leads to cancer advance
The humble tadpole could provide the key to developing effective anti-skin cancer drugs, thanks to a groundbreaking discovery by researchers at the University of East Anglia
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