Monday 16 November 2009

Pumpkin Skin Antibiotic

The skin of that pumpkin you carve into a Jack-o'-Lantern to scare away ghosts and goblins on Halloween contains a substance that could put a scare into microbes that cause millions of cases of yeast infections in adults and infants each year.
http://pubs.acs.org/stoken/presspac/presspac/full/10.1021/jf902005g

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