There was also the potential for developing better cancer drugs, since polyketides have also been a fertile source of chemotherapy agents.

FORBES: Magazine Article

Another project aims to use bacteria to produce superpowerful chemotherapy agents to shrink tumors that have developed resistance to existing drugs such as Bristol-Myers Squibb's Taxol.

FORBES: A Dirty Business

Two innovative techniques for gathering samples were revealed at the Interscience Conference on Anti-Microbial Agents and Chemotherapy in Toronto, Canada, and reported on the New Scientist website.

BBC: pipette and samples