Key takeaways
- Newly discovered bacterial compounds called keanumycins allow a certain type of bacteria to evade predatory amoebas in Keanu Reeves–like fashion, according to a new study from researchers in Germany.
- They’re also able to “drastically inhibit” the infection of hydrangea flowers with Botrytis cinerea, one of the most destructive fungal pathogens.
- Keanumycins may even be able to battle yeast infections in people, researchers say.
Bacterial compounds recently discovered by German scientists were so skilled in evading predatory amoebas and slaughtering enemies that they named them “keanumycins,” after the legendary actor Keanu Reeves.
