UKRI Stories | How do antibiotics kill bacteria - and how do superbugs become so resistant? @UKResearchandInnovation | Uploaded February 2022 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
Antimicrobial resistance - bacterial infections that can't be killed by existing drugs - is one of the greatest challenges we face. It is estimated that, without new intervention, by 2050 antimicrobial resistance will cause 10 million deaths a year. This is why understanding how antibiotics kill bacteria, and in turn how bacteria become resistant to them, is so important.
A study by the University of Sheffield uses advanced microscopy techniques, biochemistry and mathematical modelling to help us understand how antibiotics kill bacteria. The team are investigating how "superbugs" like MRSA become so resistant.
The project is part of UKRI’s Physics of Life programme, which brings physicists and life scientists together to transform our understanding of living systems and medical science challenges.
Collaborations like these require scientists to understand each others’ language and concepts, which takes time- but it can empower researchers to look at scientific challenges in new way.
Read more about Physics of Life at https://www.physicsoflife.org.uk, and more about this project here: discover.ukri.org/unlocking-the-physics-of-life/index.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=youtube&utm_campaign=pol
Nine new Physics of Life projects have also been announced: ukri.org/news/using-physics-to-transform-our-understanding-of-life/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=youtube&utm_campaign=pol
The Physics of Life ‘The Physics of Antimicrobial Resistance’ project is led by Professor Jamie Hobbs and Professor Simon Foster at the University of Sheffield. They are integrating physics and biology approaches to enable the bridging of scales from the molecular to the person to reveal vulnerabilities that can be exploited to target resistant bacteria.
#antimicrobialresistance #AMR #antibioticresistance
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Antimicrobial resistance - bacterial infections that can't be killed by existing drugs - is one of the greatest challenges we face. It is estimated that, without new intervention, by 2050 antimicrobial resistance will cause 10 million deaths a year. This is why understanding how antibiotics kill bacteria, and in turn how bacteria become resistant to them, is so important.
A study by the University of Sheffield uses advanced microscopy techniques, biochemistry and mathematical modelling to help us understand how antibiotics kill bacteria. The team are investigating how "superbugs" like MRSA become so resistant.
The project is part of UKRI’s Physics of Life programme, which brings physicists and life scientists together to transform our understanding of living systems and medical science challenges.
Collaborations like these require scientists to understand each others’ language and concepts, which takes time- but it can empower researchers to look at scientific challenges in new way.
Read more about Physics of Life at https://www.physicsoflife.org.uk, and more about this project here: discover.ukri.org/unlocking-the-physics-of-life/index.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=youtube&utm_campaign=pol
Nine new Physics of Life projects have also been announced: ukri.org/news/using-physics-to-transform-our-understanding-of-life/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=youtube&utm_campaign=pol
The Physics of Life ‘The Physics of Antimicrobial Resistance’ project is led by Professor Jamie Hobbs and Professor Simon Foster at the University of Sheffield. They are integrating physics and biology approaches to enable the bridging of scales from the molecular to the person to reveal vulnerabilities that can be exploited to target resistant bacteria.
#antimicrobialresistance #AMR #antibioticresistance
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