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Tagging the Bugs that Carry Antibiotic Resistance

Category: Science & Medicine
Duration: 00:27:01
Publish Date: 2019-03-05 21:02:03
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Antibiotic Resistance

Antibiotic Resistance

In this week’s show, Beth interviews Dr. Ivan Liachko, CEO and Co-Founder of Phase Genomics, a startup biotech company funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The company is using a new technology that allows researchers to pair plasmids, which are small non-chromosomal pieces of DNA, with the bacterial species carrying them. This is key to identiying the species in the micdrobiome that carry antibiotic resistnacne genes. In the following interview, which starts at about 6:00 Dr Liachko describes the method and its implications. You can see more about the technology at their website.
Hosts:Beth Bennett & Joel Parker
Producer:Beth Bennett
Engineer:Joel Parker
Additional Contributions:Joel Parker
Executive Producer:Beth Bennett
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