Episode 404
Stopping Superbugs
How did antibiotic-resistant superbugs arise, and how can new drugs be designed to combat them? Plus, blood from a fossilised mosquito...
The Naked Scientists Podcast · The Naked Scientists
October 19, 201354m 14s
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Show Notes
What is the scale of the superbug problem? How much is antibiotic resistance costing? Can new antibiotics be made that cannot be bypassed by bacteria? And what new drugs are already in the pipeline. In this infectious episode of the Naked Scientists, we put the rise of antimicrobial resistance under the microscope and ask what scientists are doing to combat the problem. Plus, why the abominable snowman hasn't been discovered...yeti, 46-million-year-old blood from a fossilised mosquito, phage therapy for C. diff and the brain wash-out that happens when we sleep... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Topics
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