AI technology used to find a new class of antibiotics effective against MRSA
Alice Pebody reports on a novel use of AI, screening chemical libraries for antibiotic candidates against MRSA.
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Antibiotics as a double-edged sword: Beyond antimicrobial resistance
Sahani De Silva discusses the rise of antimicrobial resistance and the effects antibiotics have on development, microbiome and immunity.
Lung infections caused by gut bacteria: What does this mean for the future of antibiotics?
Jen Jiang reports on a new study finding that lung infections can be caused by gut bacteria, with implications for antimicrobial resistance.
Recurrent UTIs are not associated with increasing antibiotic resistance in E. coli
Talk Summary by Leah Hurst For the second talk in the Translational Medicine series of the symposium we owe our thanks to Aaron Koh, an incoming Natural Sciences student at Cambridge. Following a research project during his holidays based at the Genome Institute of Singapore, Aaron not only shared with us his findings of a…
Burgers, Bacon… and Antibiotics?
I love bacon so much. And burgers, and chicken nuggets. So as you can imagine, becoming a vegetarian wasn’t something that I’d previously considered. But I’ve now been veggie for 3 weeks and counting, because it felt like something I should do. Globally, the livestock industry churns out more greenhouse gases than transport1, and as…