The Death of Antibiotics

Wednesday, May 15, 2019

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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.


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