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The Naked Scientists Podcast

Stopping Superbugs

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

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

4.6957 Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2013

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

What is the scale of the superbug problem? How much is antibiotic resistance costing? Can new antibiotics be made that cannot be bypassed by bacteria? And what new drugs are already in the pipeline. In this infectious episode of the Naked Scientists, we put the rise of antimicrobial resistance under the microscope and ask what scientists are doing to combat the problem. Plus, why the abominable snowman hasn't been discovered...yeti, 46-million-year-old blood from a fossilised mosquito, phage therapy for C. diff and the brain wash-out that happens when we sleep... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0

A frozen Berry blast, please.

0:02.0

All right, love.

0:03.0

Do you know what I've done?

0:04.0

Now, what have you done?

0:05.0

You see Pete sleeping over there.

0:07.0

I got the sun cream, but I've only got on a drawer.

0:09.0

On his back.

0:11.0

I love it, really. Oh, but that's not Pete, isn't it? Oh very funny.

0:17.0

Avoid having the wrong kind of fun in the sun with free prescription

0:20.5

sunglasses at Spexavers when you buy a pair of glasses from

0:23.6

70 pounds or above with single vision lenses to the same prescription.

0:27.1

Terms of conditions apply see in store for details. You're going to be. Hello, scientists with me Chris Smith and also with cat onie hella cat.

0:53.6

Hello and this week Jurassic Park comes to life

0:57.1

perhaps as blood is extracted from a fossilized mosquito

1:01.0

and we take a look at the Spanish slugs that are invading

1:04.2

Britain's back gardens plus superbugs how scientists are using new technology

1:09.0

to study and stop the spread of antibiotic resistant bacteria.

1:12.8

You're shedding about 15 million bacterial cells into the immediate environment around you every minute.

1:18.5

Those 15 million cells comprise mostly of bacteria associated with skin, but they also come from your nose and your mouth

1:25.4

and interestingly even from your gastrointestinal system via your trousers and onto the seats you're sitting on.

1:32.0

And on the subject of bugs for our scientific teaser this week,

1:35.6

a cryptic clue for you.

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