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Can you explain? What's the linkage between color and antibiotics?

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Mark O. Martin's avatar Mark O. Martin @markowenmartin.bsky.social
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Prodigiosin and violacein are good examples.

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Mark O. Martin's avatar Mark O. Martin @markowenmartin.bsky.social
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Many pigments (not all) are antimicrobial.

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Antibiotic pills are pink (just kidding)

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Joe Slater's avatar Joe Slater @joeinaustralia.bsky.social
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Medical researcher and Nobel laureate Paul Ehrlich correctly theorised that antibacterial drugs were to be found among the new chemical products developed by the dye industry, and in fact his Institut für experimentelle Therapie was next door to a dye factory. The sulfa drugs were one such family.

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