Professor van der Donk and colleagues collaborate with Tamir Gonen on work published in Science magazine

Microbes are master chefs of the biomolecular world; collectively, they harbor the ability to produce a vast array of unknown substances, some of which may have therapeutic or other useful properties. In searching for useful products, a team of chemists at Illinois have discovered a whole new class of microbial recipes.

Read the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology article here.