Roberto Gonzalez

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In 2021, chemist Itzel Rubí Yeverino hiked up to the El Caracol waterfall deep in the Sierra Madre Oriental, the mountain system that runs through eastern Mexico. In a small pond near the waterfall, she found a fungus growing on a submerged piece of wood. New findings reveal that molecules produced by this fungus showed antimicrobial activity against Acinetobacter baumannii, an antibiotic-resistant pathogen responsible for some hospital-acquired infections.