In the late ‘90s, Cameron Currie, now a professor of bacteriology at the University of Wisconsin, traversed through the Panamanian rainforest to observe the world’s most ancient agriculturalists: leaf-cutter ants. These unique ants could be the key to addressing humans’ increasing resistance to antibiotics. Like humans, leaf-cutter ants grow their own food, a fungus related … Continue reading Leaf-cutter ants could be key to creating new antibiotics