Mining fragmented microbial DNA identifies candidates for anticancer testing

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What happened

Researchers have developed a practical strategy for recovering biosynthetic information from fragmented metagenomic data.

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  • Reported by Phys.org and published Thu, 01 Oct 2026 22:20:01 UTC.

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