Tasmanian devil milk.....may do a body good.

Since the discovery of penicillin, highly purified antibiotics have been extensively used in modern medicine. Antibiotics stop bacterial infections and save lives, but this isn't without consequence. The bacteria fight back. Since their life-cycles are relatively very short, they can quickly evolve mechanisms to counteract the use of antibiotics and become resistant. Once this happens, we must use different kinds of antibiotics to combat resistant infections. Despite how creative we think we are, most new antibiotics are derived from molecules that other organisms produce. Recently a team of researchers have discovered components of Tasmanian devil milk that display antimicrobial properties.  Read the press release here.