Entry# 10 A New Use for Beards

Due to our overuse of antibiotics, bacteria have been mutating rapidly and becoming completely resistant to all of the antibiotics in our current arsenal. This means that diseases that were once treatable are now deadly again. Scientists have been working feverishly to discover a new stronger antibiotic that would be able to combat some of these super bugs. This search has led to some weird findings.

Scientist have discovered a bacteria that thrives on men’s beards produces an antibiotic that effectively destroys other bacteria. Interestingly, the discovery came from another study the scientists were working on stating that men’s beards had traces of feces in them (the study found no feces in men’s beards). They are doing more research on the bacteria, but so far the study looks promising.

The same scientists are also asking that people send them swabs of areas that they feel might have a lot of bacteriological activity. They will be checking these swabs for other bacteria that might produce an antibiotic as a form of defense.

Check out the whole story at ScienceDaily .

Just for fun!