When The Drugs Don't Work...

When The Drugs Don't Work...

Antibiotics are chemicals that kill bacteria but leave us unharmed. However, bacteria are evolving so that our drugs are no longer kill them. If this trend continues, the treatable are going to become untreatable, and relatively simple infections will ..
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vor 7 Jahren
Antibiotics are chemicals that kill bacteria but leave us unharmed. However, bacteria are evolving so that our drugs are no longer kill them. If this trend continues, the treatable are going to become untreatable, and relatively simple infections will become life-threatening... How serious would this scenario be, though? After all, antibiotics were only discovered a little under 100 years ago and we survived up until then, so surely we can do the same again? We'll be putting the problem under the microscope this week. Plus in the news, the UK's new Snooper's Charter, the man modelling vascular diseases in a dish, and what happens in your brain when you talk to God...

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