Dr. Mohamed Seleem’s work was featured in Newsweek’s top story titled “The Death of Antibiotics: We’re Running Out of Effective Drugs to Fight Off an Army of Superbugs”.
“Mohamed Seleem, a Purdue University biologist, and his colleagues were trying to come up with a way to quickly identify infectious bacteria in blood samples by hitting the samples with laser light of different colors. Along the way, they noticed that certain drug-resistant bacteria changed color from gold to white just seconds after being hit with a mild beam of blue laser light.
Read the full story at Newsweek “The Death of Antibiotics: We’re Running Out of Effective Drugs to Fight Off an Army of Superbugs“
You can learn more about Dr. Mohamed Seleem and his team’s research at the Seleem Research Group website.