The superbug-fighting potential of fish slime

The growing threat of antibiotic-resistant bacteria is seeing scientists get more and more creative in their search for new drugs that might help us maintain the upper hand. Tobacco flowers, rattlesnake venom and Brazilian berries are just a few of the places to turn up exciting new antibiotic candidates of late, and now researchers have uncovered what they say is a potential goldmine of antibiotics in the form of fish slime.

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Category: Medical

Tags:

• American Chemical Society
• Antibiotic
• Antibiotic-resistant bacteria
• Fish
• Superbugs

from New Atlas (Gizmag) https://ift.tt/2UnIASd