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How Do We Fix Antibiotics

26/10/2016 GMT

The Inquiry: How Can We Fix Antibiotics?

BBC World Service - The Essential, The Inquiry: How Can We Fix Antibiotics?

Science journalist Bruce Mohun explains the lengths scientists go to find new antibiotics

In this excerpt from The Inquiry, science journalist, Bruce Mohun talks about following  scientists all over the world as they try to find the next generation of antibiotics.

What do sloths, remote caves and Komodo dragons have to do with antibiotics? In this excerpt from The Inquiry, science journalist, Bruce Mohun talks about following  scientists all over the world as they try to find the next generation of antibiotics.

(Photo: A depiction of EHIC bacteria Credit: HZI/Getty Images)

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