New ways to combat the Antibiotic Apocalypse

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

Science Radio, Engineering, Naked Scientists, Natural Sciences, Technology, Life Sciences, Health & Fitness, Medicine, Science

4.6 • 957 Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Today, synthetic bacteriophages, a breakthrough vaccine for TB, and how unpicking the pathways used to make antibiotics are helping scientists to combat rising rates of antimicrobial resistance around the world... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	All engine running.
0:03.1	Absolutely genius.
0:04.1	Get this.
0:04.7	Welcome.
0:04.9	Welcome.
0:05.8	This is the show where we bring you science.
0:07.6	What that essentially means is discovery is advanced.
0:10.5	Research.
0:11.4	Technology.
0:12.4	Unbelievable.
0:13.3	Without further ado, this is the naked scientists.
0:16.9	Hello, welcome to the Naked Scientists podcast.
0:19.4	This is the program that brings you the biggest breakthroughs and talks to the major movers and shakers in the worlds of science, technology and medicine.
0:26.5	I'm Chris Smith.
0:27.6	And today, as the world unites behind antibiotic awareness week, we're exploring some of the exciting new scientific breakthroughs that we hope will help us to combat the rising tide of antimicrobial
0:39.0	resistance. Antibicrobial resistance, or AMR, as it's more frequently called, causes millions
0:50.9	of deaths every year and it happens because the medicines we've traditionally used to treat
0:55.4	infections are no longer working. With that in mind, global health bodies have come together each November
1:01.1	in a bid to raise awareness about the issue. This year's campaign has just drawn to a close, but despite
1:07.5	these efforts, new data from the UK Health Security Agency suggests that antibiotic
1:12.5	resistant infections in England are continuing to rise steadily with hundreds and hundreds
1:17.2	of new infections every week.
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