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This is Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata. Got a minute?

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Next time you hit the beach, dig your feet into the sand.

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And consider that your toes might be mingling with the wonder drug of the future:

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an antibiotic strong enough to combat MRSA, even anthrax.

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That's what researchers may have found when they dug a few feet into beach sand at Gaviota State Park, near Santa Barbara: a previously undescribed species of Streptomyces bacteria,

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which pumps out an antibiotic called anthracimycin.

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As you might have guessed, the old-school antibiotic streptomycin also comes from a strain of Streptomyces bacteria.

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But researchers say this newly discovered compound is structurally and chemically unique from that other mycin and from all other antibiotics,

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meaning it could launch a whole new class of drugs.

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Early tests suggest anthracimycin is 25 to 40 times more potent than today's antibiotics at killing anthrax and other germs, in petri dishes at least.

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And it wiped out MRSA in 90 percent of infected mice.

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The results appear in the journal Angewandte Chemie.

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There's still no evidence the drug works in humans, and this study's researchers say they won't be involved in human trials.

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But they're hoping pharmaceutical investigators won't be resistant to the idea.

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Thanks for the minute, for Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata.

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