We haven’t yet got to the podcast stage of evolution here yet. although it’s something we’re looking at with our IT people. But Nature have. That lot seem to think of everything first!
But we do consider it our duty to bring you each and every scrap of news we can on antibiotic research, still the fons et origio of these humble pages. Yesterday we channelled Nature’s report on the serendipitous discovery of an brand new antibiotic molecule called lariocidin in someone’s back garden. So in the light of our first paragraph(see above) we now present their follow up podcast on this self-same subject. That’s it, pure and simple. Are there any new antibiotics in your back garden, gentle reader? Could you be prepared to go out an take a peek? Otherwise, the rest of your weekend.
| Researchers have discovered an antibiotic molecule by seeking out organisms that wouldn’t immediately thrive in a Petri dish. “One of the postdocs in my lab thought, ‘what if we just wait a really long time…for the organisms, that otherwise would be hard to grow, to grow in the lab?’” biochemist and study co-author Gerard Wright tells the Nature Podcast. “So they went to my technician’s backyard, got a sample of the dirt back there… and then put them underneath the bench for a year.” The Paenibacillus bacteria they eventually isolated produces a lariat-shaped molecule they named lariocidin, which shows promise against a range of disease-causing bacteria.Nature Podcast | 32 min listen Subscribe to the Nature Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube Music, or use the RSS feed. |
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