What happens if you change a bacterial gene? Ukrainian molecular biologists win the "war" against killer bacteria
Articles | | 692 | Author: Natalia Merkulova
Collage by Olena Zelenina
Today, antibiotic resistance - the resistance of bacteria to one or more antibiotics that stop working and infectious diseases cannot be treated - has become another serious challenge for humanity. How do we fight infections that no antibiotic can treat? Has this problem become more acute during the war? What are the achievements of Ukrainian scientists in this area?
Back in 1945, the father of antibacterial drugs, Scottish bacteriologist Alexander Fleming, speaking at the Nobel Prize for the discovery of penicillin, noted that if the dosage is not followed and antibacterial drugs are used irregularly, bacteria can become resistant, i.e., the antibiotic stops working on them.
Today, this problem has become global.
According to the British medical scientific journal The Lancet, 1.2 million people worldwide die every year as a result of infections caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
This was discussed in an interview with Academician Volodymyr Semynozhenko in the program “About Science. Competently” program, which is broadcast on the YouTube channel of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Olena Moshynets, Senior Researcher at the Department of Regulatory
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