Justin (koavf)🌻🍉🇪🇭🌿Jan 4, 2024

Ants treat wounds with antibiotics: academic: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-43885-w popular: https://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/news-and-events/news/detail/news/ant-antibiotics/

#nature #entomology #ants #wounds #woundcare #antibiotics #eriktrank #luciekesner#joanitoliberti #quentinhelleu #adriacleboeuf #andreidascalu #douglasbsponsler #fumikaazuma #evanpeconomo #patricewaridel #philippengel #thomasschmitt #laurentkeller #UniversityofWürzburg #UniversityofWürzburg

Targeted treatment of injured nestmates with antimicrobial compounds in an ant society - Nature Communications

Infected wounds pose a major mortality risk in animals and are common in predatory ants. Here, the authors show that M. analis ants apply antimicrobial compounds produced in the metapleural glands to treat infected wounds and reduce nestmate mortality.

Nature
Alex WildMar 7, 2023

When Swiss biologist Laurent Keller suddenly resigned his position last month, no explanation was given. But now we know: a series of sexual harassment complaints.

#MeToo #STEM #Academia #LaurentKeller

https://www.science.org/content/article/sexual-harassment-allegations-leveled-leading-evolutionary-biologist

Sexual harassment allegations leveled at leading evolutionary biologist

Swiss biologist Laurent Keller, who is no longer employed by the University of Lausanne, denies all claims