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How fungus-farming ants could help solve our antibiotic resistance problem.

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For the last 60 million years, fungus-growing ants have farmed fungi for food. In their cultivation of those fungi, they've successfully relied on bacteria-produced antimicrobial ingredients to protect their crops from other species of parasitic fungi. Now, researchers reporting in the journal Trends in Ecology & Evolution say they are looking to these ants to find new ways to stop or slow the evolution of antibiotic resistance that now presents a major threat to modern medicine.

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HungryHufflepuff

Very interesting. Thanks. It sounds like this could actually be promising 🤞

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Izb1

Its amazing that these people look at things like ants to solve our medical problems and thank goodness they do, lets hope this leads to answers, thanks for posting x

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RoadRunner44

Hello again 2greys. You certainly know how to cheer us up. Yes the antibiotic situation is very serious but this news certainly gives us hope. Thanks again for sharing.

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jackdup

Nature appears to be much smarter than we are.

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