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Silent bacterial genes yield potential leads for future cancer drugs

Phys.org · WORLD · Science · 10/26/2026, 5:00:12 PM

Natural products produced by microorganisms are a promising source of new drugs. Researchers at the Helmholtz Center for Infection Research (HZI) and its Saarbrücken-based site, the Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS), have now discovered a new family of such compounds, elucidated their unusual biosynthesis and developed a way to produce them synthetically.

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