Geology
Researchers test the antibacterial effects of healing clays
Published in Surgery Litigation and Law Weekly, November 24th, 2006
Clay is most commonly associated with the sublime experience of the European spa where visitors have been masked, soaked and basted with this touted curative since the Romans ruled. If ASU geochemist Lynda Williams and microbiologist Shelley Haydel's research on the antibacterial properties of clays realizes its full potential, smectite clay could one day rise above cosmetic use to take its place comfortably with antibacterial behemoths like penicillin.
"We use maggots and leeches in hospitals, so why not clay'" Haydel poses. "I had a professor in graduate school say, 'Maybe perhaps once in your life, in your scientific career, you'll come across something that can...
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