How Marcelo and Megan solved a ten year problem in minutes - Unfolded

Most people who have access to a modern healthcare system would not consider a disease like bubonic plague to be a threat. Such bacterial infections are usually dealt with easily through modern antibiotics. Yet antibiotic resistance, where bacteria evolve the ability to defeat these drugs, is fast becoming a growing global problem - and new antibiotics are thin on the ground.

Marcelo Sousa and Megan Mitchell at the University of Colorado Boulder are looking at a different approach: targeting the …