The great news is that it may solve the problem of antibiotic resistance – the not so great news is that the mushroom has a thing for horse dung.

In case you missed the memo, chemists around the world have been racing against time to concoct a solution to the growing problem of bacteria becoming resistant to antibiotics. It’s a major threat to the health of the global community, which for a long time has assumed that antibiotics would always be available to cure bacterial illness.