With the dual threats of antibiotic resistance and emerging pandemics, finding new drugs becomes even more urgent. A trove of medicines may be lying under our nose.
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Misuse of common cleaning products or hand sanitisers can lead to antimcrobial resistance in bacteria.
Leafcutter ants, Komodo dragons and even your nose are potential sources of new antimicrobial compounds.
Triclosan is found in thousands of personal care products from toothpaste to soap. New research links it to inflammation and cancer in the gut in mice, by disrupting their microbiome.
Pharmaceutical companies focus on small molecules they’ve devised – and can easily patent. But nature’s already come up with many antibacterial compounds that drug designers could use to make medicines.
Ants produce their own antimicrobial chemicals to fight bacteria.
Manuka honey has a lot of evidence-based benefits, and a lot of rubbish claims too.
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PhD Candidate, Synthetic Biology of Natural Products, Newcastle University
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Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Technology Sydney
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General Manager, ithree institute, University of Technology Sydney
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Virology Research Scientist, University of Washington
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Lecturer, Department of Genetics and Genome Biology, University of Leicester
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PhD Candidate, Department of Genetics and Genome Biology, University of Leicester
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Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Food Science, UMass Amherst
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Professor of Toxicology, Equity and Inclusive Practice, Director of Impact and Innovation, University of East London
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PhD student in Natural Products Discovery, Edge Hill University
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Director of Natural Product Discovery Core; Assistant Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Michigan
