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April 24, 2018

Antibiotic Solutions in Soil

The first antibiotic, penicillin, was discovered almost by accident when Alexander Fleming left one of his petri dishes out while he was on vacation; he came back to find it covered in bacteria-killing mold. Now, as many infections have become resistant to antibiotics, scientists have had to wrack their brains to find more of what once was a chance discovery.

In labs around the world scientists are tasked to find new microbe-destroying molecules, but microbiologist Sean Brady has decided that maybe the answers lie outside the lab and in our own backyards.

In this article, Brady says “[His] idea is, there’s this reservoir of antibiotics out in the environment we haven’t accessed yet.” Brady and his colleagues are breaking new ground with their discovery of a new class of antibiotics they have extracted from living soil. They call it malacidins. Read more…

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