Overview
Syllabus
- Participant intros:
- Antibiotic resistance experiment video:
- Discovery of antibiotics and early research:
- Overall benefit of the discovery of antibiotics:
- When did the scientific community notice antibiotic resistance?
- Why is bacteria becoming more resistant and dangerous?:
- Antibiotics are not precision weapons:
- Are we still developing new antibiotics?:
- The antibiotic market is broken:
- Finding antibiotics in the soil:
- Challenges of culturing bacteria:
- Explanation of phage therapy:
- Lysine enzyme as antibiotic alternative:
- Host health as treatment for infection:
- Complexity of discovering antibiotics in our own microbiome:
- The future of antibiotic use and potential replacements:
- The economics of the future of antibiotics:
- Phasing out broad-spectrum antibiotics:
- Investing in the future of antibiotics as a public good:
What is the accuracy of current diagnostic tools?:
Are there any government programs pushing research forward?:
Antibacterial products as disease prevention:
Is it possible to generate synthetic antibiotics?:
Taught by
World Science Festival