Irish teen wins top science prize for blackberry antibiotic that fights resistant bacteria
This article is shared with permission from our friends at Health Nut News. Simon Meehan, 15 years old, of Coláiste Choilm, Ireland recently won first place in the 54th BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition after discovering that “chemicals found within blackberries could form antibiotics”1 capable of killing Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) a bacteria well known for being
