How do we solve antibiotic resistance?

BBC Inside Science

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Technology, Science

4.5 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

The looming danger of antibiotic resistance may have fallen out of the public consciousness but is still very much in the mind of those in public healthcare and research. As promising new research is published, the University of Birmingham’s Laura Piddock and GP Margaret McCartney get to the bottom of why antibiotic resistance is still so difficult to tackle.

Marine biologist Helen Scales joins us in the studio to talk about her new book “What the Wild Sea Could Be” which uses changes in the Earth’s past to predict what we can expect to happen to our oceans in the coming years.

Cosmologist Andrew Pontzen speculates on what happens in and around the extreme environment of a black hole as news of the first observations of the “plunging zone” comes to light.

And as the EU head to ban smoky flavoured crisps we ask what the science behind this decision is with Food scientist Stuart Farrimond.

Presenter: Marnie Chesterton Producers: Ella Hubber and Hannah Robins Researcher: Caitlin Kennedy Editor: Martin Smith Production Co-ordinator: Jana Bennett-Holesworth

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0:49.0	Coming up over the next half hour, various vanishing acts. We look at the disappearance of matter
0:54.4	near a black hole, marine life in the deep oceans, and smoky bacon crisps from
0:59.8	the supermarket shelves. But first I want you to think back to before COVID. Cast your
1:05.7	minds back a decade when top of the list of threats to mankind was antimicrobial
1:11.8	resistance and it's already a reality. was antimicrobial resistance.
1:13.0	And it's already a reality,
1:15.0	with untreatable bacterial infections
1:17.0	causing one and a quarter million deaths in 2019.
1:21.0	This month, there have been two new notable antibiotic developments, one from ancient Roman
1:27.0	baths and one that tackles a particularly nasty class of bacteria that are extra protected against the drugs we take to kill them.
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