An Oregon Health & Science University researcher believes a new gene cluster from a bacterium that protects a moss-like marine invertebrate from predators may be key to engineering cancer-fighting drugs. Dr. Margo Haygood has detailed her research team's discovery of the large gene cluster in a bacterium that secretes a bioactive molecule that not only protects the larvae of a bushy marine bryozoan from predatory fish, but also confounds a variety of cancer cell lines.
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