Re: Could bread mold be useful as a source of antibiotic/antifungal/etc?
Date: Fri Jan 29 12:28:56 1999
Posted By: Glenn Boyd, Staff, Microbiologist, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Area of science: Microbiology
ID: 916356162.Mi
Message:
I know of no medicinal use for bread mold or derivatives of bread mold. It
is a decomposer of plant and animal material as is found in abundance in
nature.
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You might be thinking of the story of how penicillin was discovered. The
truth is stranger than fiction! Look at the following web page (and its
assorted links):
Bread - Science Museum of Minnesota
-- Andreas Matern
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