The discovery of a new preclinical compound with strong antifungal activity against multidrug-resistant pathogens is ...

From caffeine to penicillin, natural products have become a mainstay in modern society and are used for numerous applications ...

A research team led by Professor Claude Becker, geneticist in the Faculty of Biology at LMU, has now discovered a gene cluster that is responsible for the production of withanolides in the ground ...

For instance, orphan gene clusters that correspond to biosynthetic loci for which the metabolite is not known are commonly found in the genomes of microorganisms. “It is hard to estimate [how ...

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