New penicillin found in wallaby milk

[den]

Scientists have discovered a bacteria-fighting compound 100 times more effective than penicillin - in wallaby milk. Researchers found the highly-potent compound, tagged AGG01, was active against a wide variety of fungi and bacteria including antibiotic-resistant superbugs.

Help for humankind from small, cute, furry, insane creatures.

Comments

[frith]

That could be very handy in treating macropods. They tend to be fragile under stress.

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

Apparently tamar wallaby joeys don't have an immune system for the first 100 days, and scientists were wondering how the joey survived so they went looking. Nifty answer!

[camstone.livejournal.com]

Great... I can see it now... people everywhere clammering for freeze dried wallaby.

"Do you have that in low fat?"

Wallaby milking farms...

"Is this organic Wallaby Milk?"

Oy.

I don't think (all of) humanity is quite ready for saving... yet.

[ursulav.livejournal.com]

That is so COOL.

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

And this is what it's like to handle a wallaby. (http://dewhitton.livejournal.com/184105.html) They are quite mad.

[torakiyoshi.livejournal.com]

That doesn't make up for the fact that every other creature on the continent wants to kill humans, though.

Have the best

-=TK

[psaakyrn.livejournal.com]

Well, they haven't concluded that it's safe for humans yet, so let's not rule that possibility out. :P

Hey, waitaminute...

[ionotter.livejournal.com]

Help for humankind from small, cute, furry, insane creatures.

That's the otters' by-line! No fair!

[jim-lane.livejournal.com]

Somehow...the mental image of huge barns full of "dairy wallabys", all docilly standing with their heads in restraint bars, tiny hoses snaking into their pouches to hook up to their itty-bitty teats and rhythmically sucking meager ounces of "milk" into enormous collection vats---

GAAHHHH!!!! Whacko-image overload!!!!!

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

docile? The Wallaby farmers would have to wear the sort of gear the mine and ordnance clearance people wear.

[jim-lane.livejournal.com]

No doubt---with the CURRENT breed of wallaby. But like cattle, breed them for maximum milk production (the mental image of wallabys with massive udderbags, like modern cattle, boggles the mind...) and cattle-like docile behavior...

Moo... ;)

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

In truth, now that they have identified the stuff they can begin synthesizing it.