Monday, September 15, 2014

An innovative place to go looking for a new antibiotic...

Vaginal microbe yields novel antibiotic

2 comments:

TimT said...

Given that overuse of penicillin and other effective antibiotics has created more and more drug-resistant bacteria, I'd be a tad uneasy at the prospect of the same being done with antibiotics from our own bodies. If we can't defend ourselves from infection with our own microflora then we'd be in a very bad way....

TimT said...

Not sure whether you've seen this story about the identification of antibacterial components in honey. It's kinda related.