Antibiotic Resistance Threatens Global Health

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Antibiotic resistance makes once-lifesaving drugs useless. Could we reverse it?

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The rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria has been dubbed the "silent pandemic" due to its stealthy global spread and lack of urgent public attention.

Overuse and misuse of antibiotics in medicine and agriculture are the major culprits.

Researchers are exploring promising new treatment strategies, with the aim of making resistant bacteria susceptible to drugs again.

Send us your questions about how the human body works to [email protected].

Tiffany Taylor is a professor of Microbial Ecology and Evolution at the University of Bath in the U.K. Her research group studies evolution in real-time in the lab, using bacteria to explore how genes and genomes evolve.

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