by TGAR Foundation | Jun 22, 2023 | General
Social media platforms have great potential for research on public health initiatives, as they have a wide reach and accessibility: 4.9 billion users and 227 million new users per year. Furthermore, social media platforms contain a diverse population sample: people...
by TGAR Foundation | Jun 19, 2023 | General
AMR is the ability of microbes to defeat the medicines designed to kill them. They multiply and grow at presumably fatal concentrations of antimicrobials. It can affect parasites, fungi and viruses, but it is especially known in the field of antibiotic resistance,...
by TGAR Foundation | Apr 25, 2023 | General
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major threat to global health. Understanding the emergence, evolution, and transmission of individual antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) is essential to develop sustainable strategies combatting this threat. Here, we use metagenomic...
by TGAR Foundation | Mar 28, 2023 | General
World Health Organization (WHO) is warning of a ‘silent pandemic’ due to a lack of antibiotic development The World Health Organization (WHO) is warning of a “silent pandemic” of antimicrobial resistance from infections caused by deadly...
by TGAR Foundation | Mar 3, 2023 | General
Where are the next generation of antibiotics going to come from? Clare Sansom looks at the pipeline The threat of antibiotic resistance is big news. Few people will have failed to notice headlines in recent years warning of a potential ‘antibiotic apocalypse’ that...
