How fungus-farming ants might help us develop new antibiotics

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  • Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
  • Scientists from the University of East Anglia are trying to develop new antibiotics for humans from the bacteria leafcutter ants are carrying on their bodies to protect the fungus they farm from other microbes.
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Комментарии • 9

  • @joachimwalle3760
    @joachimwalle3760 3 года назад +8

    These little guys really put the "ant" in antibiotics.

  • @handsaregreat
    @handsaregreat 3 года назад +2

    wow ... I've been learning about the health benefits of honey ... bee vomit ... and wondered about the ants farming fungus for any medical benefits ... and low and behold ... nature answers the call again....

  • @handsaregreat
    @handsaregreat 3 года назад +1

    Also I wonder how all of these ants know what to do? There seems logic and thinking in their process of building and farming on a hive level... crazy.

  • @pranavdatar6250
    @pranavdatar6250 4 года назад

    Intresting!

  • @andreameigs1261
    @andreameigs1261 2 года назад

    2:28 Set up a GO FUND ME. My friend meets rich people that are cool all the time at her job. I'll tell her to spread the word. With something as important as this, you really should be able to ask for funding from the public. We also really need to push for banning the use of antibiotics in unhygenic farming.

  • @noormohmed279
    @noormohmed279 4 года назад

    Fungus infected ants die ,giving animal shape, the fungus grows in animal shape, ,contact

  • @davidschmidt270
    @davidschmidt270 29 дней назад

    I like ants....bugs for that matter. You might call me crazy but consider this, king Solomon who wrote Proverbs ( most of it anyways) mentioned them in his book!

  • @andreameigs1261
    @andreameigs1261 2 года назад

    Ask Bill Gates for the money. Set up a GO FUND ME.