First relapsing fever outbreak in Montana identified
A 2002 outbreak of tick-borne relapsing fever in Montana--the first confirmation of relapsing fever in the state--has led to the discovery of a bacterium and species of tick not known previously to exist in Montana. ...... In the September 2003 issue of the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, investigators at Rocky Mountain Laboratories (RML) in Hamilton, Montana, and their collaborators descri...Montana Anti-Cancer Discovery Sublicensed To Major Drug Manufacturer
BOZEMAN, MT--A potential alternative source of the anti-cancer drug.taxol, discovered by Montana scientists five years ago and licensed to a Texas.pharmaceutical company, has been sublicensed to the New York-based drug maker.Bristol-Myers Squibb. . The June 16 agreement between Cytoclonal Pharmaceutics Inc. of Dallas.and Bristol-Myers Squibb moves the alternative source of the drug one ste.... BOZEMAN--Taxomyces andreanae may be the world's first fungus known to.make the anti-cancer drug taxol, but the Montana microbe probably won't be the.one tapped to make commercial amounts of the medicine. . Named after co-discoverers Andrea and Don Stierle of Montana Tech, the.fungus was isolated from a yew tree near Glacier National Park five years ago..But since then, co-discov...