In a newly published study featured on the cover of the journal ACS Chemical Biology, a scientific team lead by University of Michigan Life Sciences Institute Research Professor David H. Sherman and researcher Zachary Q. Beck found the trick to turn the green gunk into gold...
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November 8, 2007 - University of Michigan researchers have acquired a new molecular tool that could help them transform a toxin from coral-reef bacteria into a next-generation cancer drug.
September 7, 2006 - When infections like Strep and tuberculosis become resistant to antibiotics, patients are in trouble. Infections become more difficult to treat as disease-causing bugs mutate in ways that render the most widely used drugs ineffective. Nearly all significant bacterial infections in the world are becoming resistant to the most commonly prescribed antibiotic treatments. In fact, the Centers for Disease Control has called antibiotic resistance one of the world’s most pressing public health problems...
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Feb. 2, 2006 - LSI research professor David Sherman, in conjunction with the Broad Institute of Harvard, MIT, INBio of Costa Rica, and the Novartis Institute, recently explored the Costa Rican reefs for sediments that could yield new treatments for cancer, neurodegenerative, and tropical diseases.
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May 23, 2005 - David Sherman and his post-doc Zach Beck spent two weeks in Papua New Guinea to continue their study of underwater organisms that could yield clinically significant pharmaceuticals.
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Jan. 12, 2004 - Dr. David Sherman has bravely gone where no organic chemist has gone before- under the sea. Dr. Sherman and his team went to Papua New Guinea in the Pacific Ocean for two weeks in Dec. 2003 to collect specimens of organisms thought to contain compounds with the ability to heal cancer. After returning to dry land, the Sherman lab will do more research on these organisms, eventually deriving possible clinical treatments from them.
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