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Antibiotic Usually Produced by Coral Is Made in the Lab – Technology Networks
Scientists have effectively reproduced an antibiotic found in the corals of the Bahamas that is capable of killing multi drug-resistant tuberculosis bacteria.
Corals growing on the reefs of the Bahamas produce an active agent that kills multi-resistant tuberculosis bacteria. Scientists at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have managed to produce the antibiotic biotechnologically in the laboratory fast, cost-efficient and sustainably.Thomas Brück saw the sea whip Antillogorgia elisabethae for the first time 17 years ago while diving on a research trip to the Bahamas. He still remembers this encounter vividly, which took place 18 meters below the…
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