{"id":230582,"date":"2026-02-05T05:27:43","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T11:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/quick-test-can-curb-antimicrobial-resistance-identifying-bacteria-and-antibiotic-susceptibility-in-under-40-minutes"},"modified":"2026-02-05T05:27:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T11:27:43","slug":"quick-test-can-curb-antimicrobial-resistance-identifying-bacteria-and-antibiotic-susceptibility-in-under-40-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/quick-test-can-curb-antimicrobial-resistance-identifying-bacteria-and-antibiotic-susceptibility-in-under-40-minutes","title":{"rendered":"Quick test can curb antimicrobial resistance, identifying bacteria and antibiotic susceptibility in under 40 minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quick-test-can-curb-antimicrobial-resistance-identifying-bacteria-and-antibiotic-susceptibility-in-under-40-minutes2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>McGill researchers have developed a diagnostic system capable of identifying bacteria\u2014and determining which antibiotics can stop them\u2014in just 36 minutes, a major advance in the global effort to curb antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Current clinical testing methods typically take 48 to 72 hours, leaving physicians without timely guidance.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers say this innovation arrives at a critical moment due to the urgency of the AMR crisis, which arises from bacteria developing resistance to antibiotics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are losing the race against antimicrobial resistance,\u201d said Sara Mahshid, associate professor in the Department of Bioengineering and lead author on the <i>Nature Nanotechnology<\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41565-025-02075-z\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a>. \u201cEvery year, more than one million people die, more than from HIV\/AIDS or malaria, and delayed treatment is a major driver. Rapid testing isn\u2019t a luxury; it\u2019s the missing link between diagnosis and survival.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McGill researchers have developed a diagnostic system capable of identifying bacteria\u2014and determining which antibiotics can stop them\u2014in just 36 minutes, a major advance in the global effort to curb antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Current clinical testing methods typically take 48 to 72 hours, leaving physicians without timely guidance. The researchers say this innovation arrives at a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230582","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}