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Discovery fuels ambition to build industry from seaweed crisis

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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, May 12, CMC –  A University of the West Indies (UWI) scientist has named as Barbados,  three new species of microorganisms in decomposing sargassum that he has since described as a “cell factory” with the potential to produce more than 20 novel antibiotics.

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