Today we are more than pleased to turn our blog over lock, stock and barrel to that excellent website Nature Briefing. For they are showcasing a short but very-well made video showing some really exciting new developments in the race to find new antibiotics before resistant organisms kill us all. You should be able to find it easily via the link below, gentle readers, and their text will tell you most of what you need to know. But watch it in particular for the efforts of Dr Gerry Quinn and his colleagues in Ulster University who have been poking around the grave yards of faith healers in Fermanagh to look for new antibiotic producing organisms. Plus the efforts of researchers at London’s Imperial College who are trying to harness the power of Artificial Intelligence to help this vital quest.
Some of you always accuse us if bringing nothing but doom and gloom to your screens. OK-here’s a bit of light and sunshine for once. Happy now?
Video: The Hunt for the next antibiotics is what they call it. Good title!
| To battle antibiotic resistance, researchers are leaving no stone unturned and harnessing AI to find new antibiotics. Nature filmmaker Nick Petrić Howe went to a remote graveyard in Northern Ireland in the pouring rain to learn how one researcher discovered a source of antibiotic-producing bacteria closer to home — at the grave of a faith healer.Nature | 19 min video This editorially independent video is part of Nature Outlook: Antimicrobial resistance, a supplement produced with financial support from Meiji Seika Pharma. |
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