Fixing the antibiotics pipeline

Antibiotic producing  bacteria

Did you know that almost all of the antibiotics prescribed by your doctor were discovered in the 1950s and 60s? Most of these antibiotics are made by soil bacteria which have to carry resistance to their own antibiotics to prevent them killing themselves. Inevitably these resistance genes have spread to less friendly bacteria due to the mis-use of antibiotics and as a result we are now dealing with the terrifying reality of multi-drug resistant infectious bacteria combined with a depleting arsenal of effective antibiotics.