Bugs from your beard may help produce antibiotcs

Bugs from your beard may help produce antibiotcs

Yes, that is right. Your beard is a place for millions of bacteria. And some of them can be used by scientists to produce newer antibiotics.

Research conducted in London has determined that some of the bacteria growing in men's beards have antibiotic properties. The discovery is important at a time when the overuse of man-made antibiotics is making pathogenic bacteria strains increasingly resistant to treatment.

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