Game Over, Bacteria

It’s uh me, Bactario! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Antibiotic resistant bacteria are emerging everywhere. Like goombahs in Super Mario! How do we stop them? Ready player one: Amninder Kaur, and team, from Austria and Germany. They cultivated a rare bacterium that naturally makes

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Battling Bacteria

Is the cure for what ails you, more germs? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Bacteria that survive antibiotics not only multiply, they can become drug resistant! And drug-proof infections kill twenty-three thousand Americans every year. Enter Helen Spencer from Great Ormond Street Hospital and

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