The Lucky Years: How To Thrive In The Brave New World Of Health - Plot & Excerpts
was an unnerving, chilling segment to produce, to say the least; it seemed so realistic and doomsdayish at the time. But no less than a month later, I was back on the morning news again, this time applauding a group of Northeastern University researchers who’d found a new method to extract bacteria that live in dirt to yield a powerful new antibiotic.20 In these newly identified bacteria from a grassy meadow in Maine (that could only be grown when the bacteria were cultured in dirt!), a compound called teixobactin was discovered that could cure severe superbug infections. Best of all, the drug works in a way that makes it highly unlikely that bacteria will become resistant to it. Moreover, the method developed to make the drug has the potential to lead us to a treasure chest of other natural compounds to fight infections—molecules that were previously beyond our reach because the microbes that produce them could not be grown in the laboratory, as no one had yet tried to grow bacteria in a laboratory with dirt.
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