Tackling antibiotic resistance with phage-libraries
The threat of millions of deaths due to antibiotic resistance by 2050 has challenged an interdisciplinary group of ETH Zurich students to enter the annual competition iGEM with their solution for this global problem. The team gained a lot of experience and is happy with the positive feedback and their gold medal.
Using viruses that infect bacteria, so called phages, is a known treatment against bacterial infections in eastern European countries. However, the spectrum of treatable pathogens with naturally available phages is limited and there is a need for a rapid selection of an infecting phage variant. This is how the team wants to solve the problem:
The successful team
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