Do you have an idea to solve the antibiotics challenge? Everyone, from Doctors and the professional scientific community has been invited to try and solve the Antibiotic challange and win the £10 million prize,. You can submit your entries by clicking here - http://www.longitudeprize.org/challenge/antibiotics The Problem Statement - The WHO estimates that antibiotics treatments add an average of 20 years to all of our lives. But in the 80 years since the discovery of penicillin, our overuse of antibiotics has put pressure on bacteria to evolve resistance, leading to the emergence of untreatable superbugs that threaten the basis of modern medicine.
Clinicians often prescribe broad spectrum antibiotics to sick patients because doctors have to act quickly on imperfect information. These methods put selective pressure on microbes to evolve resistance to antibiotics. Evolution - Radical…
