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Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Fifty-Nine-Million Year Old Protein Resurrected --A Potent Antibiotic

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Ben Cocks, Research Director of the Bio-Sciences Research and a Professor in Animal Genetics and Genomics at La Trobe University has been working with DNA from a 60 million year-old wallaby to combat drug-resistant bugs or pathogens. The wallaby genome was recently published, and identified a number of genes encoding anti-microbial peptides. The team reconstructed what a certain segment of DNA would have looked like 60 million years ago when Australia was part of Gondwana.

Read More: http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2011/09/fifty-nine-million-year-old-protein-resurrected-a-potent-antibiotic.html

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