Microbiologist Discovers New Super-Preservative
19th September 2011
In one of those freak accidents that sometimes occur in science, where someone is looking at something for one purpose and finds another for it, Dan O’Sullivan has found a use for a byproduct of harmless bacteria commonly found in the human gut; called bisin, it appears to work as a sort of super-preservative for meat, dairy and eggs, allowing them to go unspoiled for perhaps years.