TEDMED | What if the best pharmacy on the planet is waiting to be discovered in the soils beneath our feet? @TEDMED | Uploaded July 2019 | Updated October 2024, 1 day ago.
Antibiotic resistance is a critical, and potentially devastating issue that threatens humanity’s ability to fight disease. Sean Brady, Co-Founder and Scientific Advisor of Lodo Therapeutics, believes that, while rates of antibiotic resistance have risen, there is a giant, untapped reservoir of potential therapeutics that isn’t available using traditional culture-based approaches to drug discovery. Watch Sean’s TEDMED 2018 Hive Talk to discover how extracting bacterial DNA straight from the ground we walk on might provide access to novel life saving antibiotics.
Antibiotic resistance is a critical, and potentially devastating issue that threatens humanity’s ability to fight disease. Sean Brady, Co-Founder and Scientific Advisor of Lodo Therapeutics, believes that, while rates of antibiotic resistance have risen, there is a giant, untapped reservoir of potential therapeutics that isn’t available using traditional culture-based approaches to drug discovery. Watch Sean’s TEDMED 2018 Hive Talk to discover how extracting bacterial DNA straight from the ground we walk on might provide access to novel life saving antibiotics.
