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Cave explorer hunts drugs to fight superbugs

2013-02-28 03:02:56| Biotech - Topix.net

In a remote cave 1,600 feet below New Mexico's Carlsbad Caverns National Park, Hazel Barton, a microbiologist working with Cubist Pharmaceuticals Inc., has found a drug-resistant bacteria that may one day help extend the life of Cubist's best-selling antibiotic, Cubicin.

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