{"id":127993,"date":"2021-09-23T04:22:40","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T11:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/why-a-small-pacific-country-could-solve-a-worldwide-issue"},"modified":"2021-09-23T04:22:40","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T11:22:40","slug":"why-a-small-pacific-country-could-solve-a-worldwide-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/why-a-small-pacific-country-could-solve-a-worldwide-issue","title":{"rendered":"Why a small Pacific country could solve a worldwide issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_g3x6AsU7EI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Back in 2,014 the World Health Organization (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">WHO<\/a>) warned that within a decade, antibiotic-resistant bacteria could make routine surgery, organ transplantation, and cancer treatment life-threateningly risky \u2014 and spell the <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/blogs\/health\/2012\/03\/16\/antibiotic-resistance-could-bring-end-of-modern-medicine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">end of modern medicine<\/a> as we know it.<\/p>\n<p>Antibiotics are a cornerstone of modern medicine, used to treat infections and to protect vulnerable patients undergoing surgery or chemotherapy. The world desperately needs new antibiotics, and Covid-19 has only exacerbated the problem.<\/p>\n<p>In our search for new antibiotics, we have focused on fungi, especially those found only in Aotearoa New Zealand. Our latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontiersin.org\/articles\/10.3389\/fmicb.2021.739995\/full\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">research<\/a> describes the discovery of fungal compounds able to kill Mycobacteria, a family of slow-growing bacteria that includes another important global airborne killer \u2014 <em><em>Mycobacterium tuberculosis<\/em><\/em> \u2014 which causes the lung disease tuberculosis and kills thousands of people around the world each day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2,014 the World Health Organization (WHO) warned that within a decade, antibiotic-resistant bacteria could make routine surgery, organ transplantation, and cancer treatment life-threateningly risky \u2014 and spell the end of modern medicine as we know it. Antibiotics are a cornerstone of modern medicine, used to treat infections and to protect vulnerable patients undergoing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}