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Research performed by scientists at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center may lead to the production of drugs to combat the deadly toxin secreted by anthrax bacteria...
...drugs could prove a more effective treatment for exposure to anthrax since current antibiotics combat only anthrax bacteria and not the toxins they secrete...
...five individuals died as a result of exposure to anthrax spores contained in a series of mailings across the U.S., according to Lewis C. Cantley, senior author of the study and chief of the Division of Signal Transduction at Beth Israel. The deceased victims were successfully rid of anthrax bacteria by antibiotics, thus proving that buildups of anthrax toxin—which would not have been counteracted by the antibiotics—must have been the cause of death...
...until about 10,000 years ago, when people began settling into permanent agricultural communities, that winemaking could turn into an extensive enterprise. Through trial and error, experts speculate, the world's first vintners would have learned to manipulate both the yeast that turns grape juice into wine and the bacteria that turn wine into vinegar. Among the key ingredients in the fight against the latter were aromatic compounds found in certain tree resins. In the 7,500-year-old wine residues McGovern's lab identified in 1996, for example, was the clear chemical signature of resin from the terebinth tree...
Penicillin In 1928 Canadian doctor Alexander Fleming, below, noted that Penicillium mold destroyed colonies of bacteria, proving that medicines could kill disease-causing pathogens inside the body. The true significance was realized in the 1940s when a powder form of the drug was made...