Antimicrobial resistance is a growing danger to the world’s population, caused predominantly by the overuse of antibiotics in both human health, animal husbandry and agriculture over the past 50 years. AMR is putting more and more lives at risk, with experts warning of a return to a time where everyday infections become life-threatening, with a potential economic cost of over $1 trillion.
Most of our current antibiotics were originally identified from microbes that live in soil, but due to a critical lack of new antibiotics, academics and researchers or ‘BioProspectors’ are looking for solutions via alternative technologies and environmental sources
