Your Beard Doesn’t Contain Poop, But It Could Help Develop New Antibiotics, University College London Study

Microbiologist Adam Roberts went digging through men’s beards in search of poop.

Instead, he found a tantalizing suggestion of a breakthrough in the global fight against drug-resistant infections. Which, for a researcher working fervently to help avert the antibiotic apocalypse that the World Health Organization, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Roberts himself believe may be looming, is not a bad trade off.

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