Neat News 776 (added 2018-02-14)
Antibiotics from Dirt?
Public Domain by National Institutes of Health of the USA
Bacteria are getting increasingly resistant against existing antibiotics and are this way a danger for many people. Now scientists have discovered that some micro-organisms, so-called malacidins, live in dirt. They are able to to survive in hostile environments. In experiments with rats they were able to eliminate MRSA - a very hard to treat infection - in skin wounds. There is hope that this will lead to a new antibiotic drug.
