• Question: if you could make an invention what would it be? what would it look like? how would it be different to any other inventions?

    Asked by swarby to Frank, Ian, Isabel, Jared, Zena on 14 Mar 2015.
    • Photo: Isabel Pires

      Isabel Pires answered on 14 Mar 2015:

      Instead of an invention as such, I would like to discover new antibiotics that bacteria cannot become resistant to.
      I think one of the biggest challenges we face in medicine is discovering new ways to kill nasty bacteria. Most of the antibiotics we have nowadays run the risk of becoming useless because so many bacteria types are now becoming resistant to them, that is, they are no longer being killed by them.

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