Great Salt Lake could be home to the next medicinal breakthrough

Microorganisms unique to the lake produce chemicals that could treat drug-resistant diseases such as E. coli.

(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) Dr. Jaclyn Winter, Assistant Professor of Medicinal Chemistry at the University of Utah's College of Pharmacy, and her team of doctoral students are studying how microorganisms unique to the Great Salt Lake can be developed into pharmaceuticals. In her lab, samples from the lake are processed and studied to determine what therapeutic compounds they might produce, Oct. 26, 2021.

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