Mycology Education (rebroadcast)
Big Picture Science
00:00
Antibiotics That Kill Bacteria
Fungus helps us through the medicinal uses of fungy. They produce all sorts of anti viral compounds a and many of these are in use in human medicineand show great pomise in treating various viral infections. Fungy live their lives enmeshed in their surroundings, and so in this very close contact with their surroundings. And so just as they're maximising their surface area so that they can digest efficiently, they are also making themselves vulnerable to infection. So when we use these antibiotics, we are a re housing fungal solution in our own bodies. We are applying a fungle cure evolved by fungy for their own purposes. It doesn't stop there. Panicilon,
Play episode from 38:51
Transcript
