By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at AIDS Weekly & Law -- Soils from one of the highest, driest places on earth harbour microorganisms with the potential to treat HIV and tackle the world’s antibiotic time bomb, research from Newcastle University, UK, has revealed.
Analysis of soils from the Cerro Chajnantor mountain landscape of Chile within the Atacama Desert, one of only two coastal deserts in the world, has revealed a treasure trove of bacteria with the potential to fight disease.
Published this month in the academic journal Extremophiles, the work was carried out as part of an international project and led by Professors Juan Asenjo (University of Chile), Alan Bull (Kent University), Michael Goodfellow (Newcastle University) and Marcel Jaspars (Aberdeen University).
Professor Michael Goodfellow, Senior Research Investigator, Dr Roy Sanderson, Lecturer in Biological Modelling at Newcastle University and …
CITATION: (2017-12-14), ‘Dark matter’ discoveries could shine light on new treatments for diseases, AIDS Weekly & Law, 3, ISSN: 1553-3352, BUTTER® ID: 014817020
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