Scientists Must Reduce Antibiotic Use In Experiments

Friday, March 27, 2015 - 01:40 in Health & Medicine

Scientists should reduce antibiotic use in lab experiments - according to a researcher at the University of East Anglia. Microbiology, molecular biology and genetic research such as the Human Genome Project use antibiotics in experiments. But it all adds to the global problem of antibiotic resistance according to Dr Laura Bowater, from UEA's Norwich Medical School. A new article published today in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy highlights the problem. Dr Bowater said: "The discovery of antibiotics was heralded as a magic bullet for modern medicine. Using antibiotics in research has transformed scientific discovery. But now antibiotic resistance is a catastrophic threat -and it threatens the achievements of modern medicine. read more

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