Showing posts with label new antibiotic discovery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label new antibiotic discovery. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 14, 2015

New Antibiotic

I found these little trees and thought they would look nice in the house as winter home decor!







A promising new antibiotic has been found in the soil.   A new superdrug is desperately needed as there has been no new discoveries to fight increasingly resistant bacteria since 1987.  A 'team of international researchers used a device called an iChip to collect 10,000 bacteria strains from a grassy field in Maine, including a previously uncultured bacterium that makes teixobactin'.