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Ancient, Insect-Targeting Bacterial Toxin May Have Implications for Human Health, Agriculture, and Drug Discovery

Researchers at McMaster University, Boston Children's Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, with collaborators from Stockholm University in Sweden and Yale University, have identified and characterized a new class of Streptomyces-produced toxins that are very distantly related to the deadly toxin that causes diphtheria, a serious and contagious infection, in humans.

April 30, 2026


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