Antibiotic Resistance: Tackling the Sleeping Giant of Human Health

Antibiotics are one of the greatest medical discoveries in human history. Antibiotics completely transformed our life-spans and quality of life. But the rise of antibiotic resistant pathogens threatens our global population, potentially bringing us back to a time when a simple cut became a killer. What can synthetic biology do to address this growing crisis? How can we develop new antibiotics? How can we reduce our overall use of antibiotics with new tools so current drugs remains effective for longer?