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Volume 2: Issue 2March 2009
Actinomycetes and antibiotics
B. Abhinaya of class 12 of SriSankara Senior Sec. School, Adyarwon the Bio Asia Young Mindsaward at Bio Asia 2009 held atHyderabad from Feb. 2 to 4.Her project of marineactinomycetes won her a cash prizeof Rs. 50000 besides laurels for herfindings which will help informulating new drugs for fightingspecific infections.Bio Asia Global Business forum(http://www.bioasia.in)holds thiscontest every year to promoteinvestigative spirit in young schoolchildren particularly in the field of Biotechnology and Life sciences.Abhinaya first isolated marineactinomycetes from the sea bed.She studied them carefully and saidthe study about them wasfascinating because they aretransient - show both the characteristics of bacteria and fungi. Having isolatedone species from the lot she characterised them.Finally it was identified that they have an antibiotic property, especially againstthe bacteria 'stephalococcus' which causes skin diseases / infection. She did all theexperiments and further study at the school's biotech laboratory for a month.The principal Subala Ananthanarayanan, vice principal B. Meenakshi and the
 Abhinaya's project brings out the antibiotic property in marine actinomycetes
biotech teachers LakshmiPrabhu and Sunandaencouraged and helpedAbhinaya in the project.
 Reported by J. Anirudh, Student Reporter
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