Gallery | Best of 80beats | One Reason to Love the Cockroach

We have found an answer to some antibiotic-resistant bacteria--in the brains of cockroaches. Given the filth in which these insects live, you'd expect them to be tough. And when scientists extracted chemicals from cockroach brains, those roach antibiotics slaughtered resistant strains of Staphylococcus and E. coli.

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