What if you were the co-discoverer of the next antibiotic?
No need to go back to a long course of study for this: all you have to do is take a little soil during your next hike and send it to Paris, to the Laboratory of Evolution and Dynamic Systems Engineering of Inserm - University Paris Cité, which just launched the “Science à la shovel” initiative this week.
“More than 80% of the antibiotics in the current pharmacopoeia come from bacteria living in the soil
,” recalls Vincent Libis, co-leader of the project.
It is therefore the best substrate to analyze if we want to have a chance of finding new antibiotic molecules.”
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And the need is urgent.
Antibiotic resistance is on the increase and constitutes a very real health threat.
They are already responsible for more than 1.2 million deaths per year, according to a recent study published in the journal
The Lancet
.
“This figure could approach 10 million by 2050 according to the World Health Organization.
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