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Ancient Nubians Made Antibiotic Beer

From Wired Science…

Chemical analysis of the bones of ancient Sudanese Nubians who lived nearly 2000 years ago shows they were ingesting the antibiotic tetracycline on a regular basis, likely from a special brew of beer. The find is the strongest yet that antibiotics were previously discovered by humans before Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin in 1928.

Read the whole thing at:  http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/09/antibiotic-beer/#ixzz0yloCzaSN

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This was written by Curtis in /\/\onTana! {=-{>. Posted on Monday, September 6, 2010, at 10:08 am. Filed under Food, Humor, Inspiration. Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Post a comment or leave a trackback.

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