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  2. Production of antibiotics - Wikipedia

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    Production of antibiotics is a naturally occurring event, that thanks to advances in science can now be replicated and improved upon in laboratory settings. Due to the discovery of penicillin by Alexander Fleming, and the efforts of Florey and Chain in 1938, large-scale, pharmaceutical production of antibiotics has been made possible.

  3. Biodiversity and drugs - Wikipedia

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    Biodiversity plays a vital role in maintaining human and animal health because numerous plants, animals, and fungi are used in medicine to produce vital vitamins, painkillers, antibiotics, and other medications. [1] [2] [3] Natural products have been recognized and used as medicines by ancient cultures all around the world. [4]

  4. Plant toxin discovery could boost fight against antibiotics ...

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    Scientists say albicin, which has a unique way of killing harmful bacteria, is one of the strongest antibiotic candidates in decades. Plant toxin discovery could boost fight against antibiotics ...

  5. Actinomycetota - Wikipedia

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    Actinomycetota-derived antibiotics that are important in medicine include aminoglycosides, anthracyclines, chloramphenicol, macrolide, tetracyclines, etc. [citation needed] Actinomycetota have high guanine and cytosine content in their DNA. [21] The G+C content of Actinomycetota can be as high as 70%, though some may have a low G+C content. [22]

  6. Discovery of penicillin - Wikipedia

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    Many ancient cultures, including those in Australia, China, Egypt, Greece and India, independently discovered the useful properties of fungi and plants in treating infection. These treatments often worked because many organisms, including many species of mould, naturally produce antibiotic substances. However, ancient practitioners could not ...

  7. What everyone should know about antibiotics, according ... - AOL

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    Antibiotics work by either killing bacteria directly or preventing their growth and spread. “Because if it can’t grow, it will die,” Hai Tran , clinical pharmacist and associate director of ...

  8. Antibiosis - Wikipedia

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    The study of antibiosis and its role in antibiotics has led to the expansion of knowledge in the field of microbiology. Molecular processes such cell wall synthesis and recycling, for example, have become better understood through the study of how antibiotics affect beta-lactam development through the antibiosis relationship and interaction of the particular drugs with the bacteria subjected ...

  9. Agrobacterium - Wikipedia

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    Plants are grown on media containing antibiotic following transformation, and those that do not have the T-DNA integrated into their genome will die. An alternative method is agroinfiltration. [20] [21] Plant (S. chacoense) transformed using Agrobacterium. Transformed cells start forming calluses on the side of the leaf pieces