{"id":30515,"date":"2016-09-26T12:03:03","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T19:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/the-science-world-is-freaking-out-over-this-25-year-olds-answer-to-antibiotic-resistance"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:13:19","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:13:19","slug":"the-science-world-is-freaking-out-over-this-25-year-olds-answer-to-antibiotic-resistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/the-science-world-is-freaking-out-over-this-25-year-olds-answer-to-antibiotic-resistance","title":{"rendered":"The science world is freaking out over this 25-year-old\u2019s answer to antibiotic resistance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-science-world-is-freaking-out-over-this-25-year-olds-answer-to-antibiotic-resistance.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A 25-year-old student has just come up with a way to fight drug-resistant superbugs <em>without <\/em>antibiotics.<\/p>\n<p>The new approach has so far only been tested in the lab and on mice, but it could offer a potential solution to antibiotic resistance, which is now getting so bad that the United Nations recently declared it a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2016\/sep\/20\/un-declaration-antibiotic-drug-resistance\">fundamental threat<\/a>\u201d to global health.<\/p>\n<p>Antibiotic-resistant bacteria already <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2014\/12\/oneill-rpt-amr\/\">kill around 700,000<\/a> people each year, but a recent study suggests that number could rise to around <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2014\/12\/oneill-rpt-amr\/\">10 million by 2050<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/the-science-world-s-freaking-out-over-this-25-year-old-s-solution-to-antibiotic-resistance\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/the-science-world-s-freaking-out...resistance<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 25-year-old student has just come up with a way to fight drug-resistant superbugs without antibiotics. The new approach has so far only been tested in the lab and on mice, but it could offer a potential solution to antibiotic resistance, which is now getting so bad that the United Nations recently declared it a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30515","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30515"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66149,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30515\/revisions\/66149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}