Ping.
Few people realize the incredible effect antibiotics have had on medicine. I was surprised to read that prior to 1910, over 90% of deaths were caused by infectious disease.
Today it is just the opposite, only 10% and that is due to antibiotics.
I always thought Sir Alexander Fleming should have been named the man of the century.
The research carried out by Dr Mickelfield and his colleagues is part of a larger £650,000 project called ‘Combinatorial biosynthesis of lipopeptide antibiotics’, which is funded by the BBSRC
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BBSRC is one of seven Research Councils that work together as Research Councils UK (RCUK). It is funded from the Government’s Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS).
and if it doesn’t work...will they pay the govt back the money?
Do we have any assurances that the compounds they are working on can have no short term or long term effects on mammalian biology?
Didn’t thing so.