Microbial Metabolite Could Be Potential Weapon against Skin Cancer

There is an old metaphysical concept that suggests for every poison that nature produces, somewhere it also makes the antidote. Investigators at Oregon State University (OSU) may now be able to extrapolate the metaphysics into reality, as they have recently published findings of a new study that describes a soil-dwelling bacterium producing molecules that induce death in melanoma cells. Results from their investigation were published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry in an article entitled