ANTHRAX ANTIDOTE PROMISING, STUDY FINDS.(NEWS)

From: The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH) | Date: June 7, 2002 | Copyright information

Byline: Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO -- An experimental anthrax antidote has protected rats injected with the bacterium's deadly toxin, researchers found.

University of Texas researchers say they've genetically engineered a mouse protein that offers an anthrax toxin a more attractive docking site than its usual target of healthy blood cells.

'This looks like the most promising antitoxin under development,' said Dr. Robert Liddington, who studies the poison's atom-by-atom structure at the Burnham Institute in San Diego. 'Certainly, if I had late-stage anthrax I'd ...

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