Bat guano yields antibiotic treasure in Philippines

Turning lemons into lemonade is all well and good, but how about transforming bat poop into antibiotics? Via The Inquirer, we read today that the National Research Council of the Philippines has uncovered smelly gold in a cave in the Philippines — guano that contains the bacteria  Streptomyces spp. — Read the rest

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