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Tag: Camila Esguerra

  • Saturday, February 16th 2013 - 20:44 UTC

    Trawling for the next generation of antibiotics at the bottom of the ocean

    England’s chief medical officer Dame Sally Davies has warned of an ‘antibiotic apocalypse”

    Researchers are embarking on an £8m project to discover new antibiotics at the bottom of the ocean. A team, led by scientists at Aberdeen University, is hunting for undiscovered chemicals among life that has evolved in deep sea trenches.Prof Marcel Jaspars said the team hoped to find “the next generation” of infection-fighting drugs.