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NPR Science Friday topic today at 2-4 pm
06/03/2016
Old Ideas May Help Us Fight New Superbugs

Last week, the U.S. Army announced the arrival of a new enemy on American soil. But the danger was microscopic: a bacterial gene, easily passed to other bacteria, which confers resistance to one of our last-ditch antibiotics, colistin. The news was a reminder of our dwindling options in fighting superbugs. But researchers like Brad Spellman and Paul Turner are working on a few out-of-the-box ideas for the post-antibiotic era. Felicia Wu joins too, to talk about the lifecycle of an antibiotic, from the farm to your plate.

Segment Guests

Paul Turner is a professor and the chair of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.

Brad Spellberg is Chief Medical Officer at the LAC+USC Medical Center in Los Angeles, California.

Felicia Wu is John A. Hannah Distinguished Professor in the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan.