Wilfred van der Donk, Kou-San Ju, William Metcalf (IMAGE)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau

Wilfred van der Donk, Kou-San Ju, William Metcalf

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University of Illinois chemistry professor Wilfred van der Donk (left), postdoctoral researcher Kou-San Ju, microbiology professor William Metcalf and their colleagues used genome mining to discover many new natural products quickly and inexpensively.

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