Uploaded July 2019 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Today, antibiotic resistance is on the rise, simply because it takes too long to culture a bacterial infection, identify it, then match it with the appropriate antibiotics. Day Zero Diagnostics is using genome sequencing and machine learning to identify antibiotic resistance of a pathogen, directly from it’s genome. Watch Miriam Huntley, CTO and Co-Founder of Day Zero, in her TEDMED 2018 Hive Talk to learn how taking the blindfold off of bacterial infection treatment can save thousands of lives.
Today, antibiotic resistance is on the rise, simply because it takes too long to culture a bacterial infection, identify it, then match it with the appropriate antibiotics. Day Zero Diagnostics is using genome sequencing and machine learning to identify antibiotic resistance of a pathogen, directly from it’s genome. Watch Miriam Huntley, CTO and Co-Founder of Day Zero, in her TEDMED 2018 Hive Talk to learn how taking the blindfold off of bacterial infection treatment can save thousands of lives.
