Natural antibiotics
Nature’s Laboratory, a Whitby-based business, has developed a water soluble form of propolis, a resin collected by bees and used by them as an immune defence mechanism. This has numerous therapeutic effects, including antimicrobial, immunomodulatory and anti cancer and has the potential to greatly improve human health. One of the barriers to the commercial success of this product however was its strong, pungent odour.
In a project funded by the Molecular Engineering Translational Research Centre (METRC), researchers at the University of Bradford's Institute for Pharmaceutical Innovation worked with Nature’s Laboratory scientists to create a process to deodorise the product. Company founder James Fearnley, who set up the state-of-the-art laboratory, said it was a big breakthrough. “We have been involved in this research for 20 years and have just released a paper about how propolis can be used to help fight MRSA,” he said. “This award is very exciting as propolis is very pungent smelling and what we have been doing is removing that smell without reducing its effects. Our product will now be sent to a customer in Korea to be used over there and the implications are massive.”
Nature’s Laboratory and the Institute of Pharmaceutical Innovation at Bradford have been nominated for a “Partners in Innovation” award at the Yorkshire Forward Innovator/10 Awards Ceremony.
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