No snake oil here
Article Abstract:
Magainin Pharmaceuticals' founder Michael A. Zasloff discovered magainins, animal-derived peptides that can kill a wide variety of disease-causing microorganisms. Because magainins do not act like traditional antibiotics or antifungal agents, bacteria cannot resist them.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1993
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David's victory: gene causing "bubble boy" illness is finally found
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Researchers have found that SCID, or the lack of an immune system, has a genetic cause. Cases of SCID resulting from a defective X chromosome are caused by a genetic abnormality that produces the gamma-chain subunit of the receptor for the cytokine interleukin-2.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1993
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