Antibiotics are becoming increasingly less effective, so what treatments can we look to when the drugs stop working? With help from plant extracts, award-winning company HerbScience is seeking to breathe new life into how we treat bacterial infections.

Dr Andrew Munkacsi, a senior lecturer in chemical genetics at Victoria University of Wellington, is currently working on using feijoa to develop a new antifungal. Like antibiotics and bacterial infections, antifungal drugs have become increasingly resistant to fungal infections, leading to Dr Munkacsi’s lab research into compounds in feijoa peels that inhibit the growth of Candida species.

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