When The Drugs Don't Work...

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

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

4.6 • 958 Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2016

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Antibiotics are chemicals that kill bacteria but leave us unharmed. However, bacteria are evolving so that our drugs no longer kill them. If this trend continues, the treatable are going to become untreatable... How serious would this scenario be, though? We'll be putting the problem under the microscope this week. Plus in the news, the UK's new Snooper's Charter, the man modelling vascular diseases in a dish, and what happens in your brain when you talk to God... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	I have you loud and clear.
0:03.2	Hello.
0:04.2	Hello.
0:05.2	Welcome.
0:06.2	Science.
0:09.2	And that is the same.
0:10.6	physics, medicine, nature.
0:11.6	Space, time, brain, life, the universe.
0:15.0	Hello this week, antibiotic resistance, what's the risk and why is it happening?
0:22.0	Plus in the news, the UK's new... the in your brain when you talk to God. I'm Grey Jackson and I'm Chris Smith and this is
0:35.0	the Naked Scientist. The Naked Scientists podcast is powered by UKfast.co. UK.
0:41.2	UK. Now we don't normally start our shows like this but we're breaking with tradition to ask if you will help us.
0:54.0	The naked scientist has been going for over 15 years now and over that time we've
0:59.2	created more than a thousand programs and we want to make sure that we can continue to do so.
1:05.4	And to do that we need to meet our running costs but we also want to bring you a new website
1:09.7	for 2017.
1:10.7	Indeed we do and our target to raise is 50,000 pounds or more in the run up to Christmas.
1:17.2	So far we've raised 1500 pounds and we would very much like to thank Eugene Pluta, Nancy Barnett, Chia Roderick,
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1:37.5	You have been incredibly generous so far, thank you, but we do have some way to go.
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