https://phys.org/ en-us Phys.org internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. It took two postdoctoral researchers, a lab technician, four undergraduates and their faculty advisors only four years - a blink of an eye in pharmaceutical terms - to scour a collection of 10,000 bacterial strains and isolate the genes responsible for making 19 unique, previously unknown phosphonate natural products, researchers report. Each of these products is a potential new drug. One of them has already been identified as an antibiotic. https://phys.org/news/2015-09-genome-effort-natural-products-years.html Biochemistry Tue, 08 Sep 2015 14:31:15 EDT news360941464 Phosphorus is one of the most common substances on Earth. An essential nutrient for every living organism—humans require approximately 700 milligrams per day—we are rarely concerned about consuming enough of it because it is present in most of the foods we eat. Despite its ubiquity and living organisms' utter dependence on it, we know surprisingly little about how it moves, or cycles, through the ocean environment. https://phys.org/news/2015-05-ocean-hidden-fertilizer-marine-major.html Earth Sciences Thu, 14 May 2015 14:00:06 EDT news350821368 A soil microbe that uses chemical warfare to fight off competitors employs an unusual chemical pathway in the manufacture of its arsenal, researchers report, making use of an enzyme that can do what no other enzyme is known to do: break a non-activated carbon-carbon bond in a single step. https://phys.org/news/2009-06-implausible-chemistry-herbicidal-compound.html Cell & Microbiology Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:31:48 EDT news163859483