Word: aureomycin
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...Pearl River, N.Y. As a Harvard graduate student, he pioneered in studies on muscular contraction, after going to Lederle concentrated on folic acid (part of the vitamin-B complex), helped develop its derivatives, teropterin and aminopterin (now being used to fight cancer), directed research that produced the new antibiotic, aureomycin (a cure for serious infections untouched by penicillin or streptomycin...