"Antimicrobial resistance, as I say again and again, is a slow-motion tsunami." - Dr Margaret Chan, World Health Organization (WHO) x.com/WHO/status/722…

Presenting our new animation! How are we trying to help stop #AntibioticResistance? vimeo.com/163519071 Ran by Nesta w Innovate UK

It’s been almost 30 yrs since the last new class of antibiotics made it to docs’ hands pew.org/1Sveead

Amongst the antibiotics that are a mainstay of human healthcare penicillins and successive generations of β-lactams have been most used #AMR

β-lactam resistance is due to enzymes that destroy the antibiotic, permeability changes in the outer membrane or altering the target itself

β-lactams target the final stage of bacterial cell wall peptidoglycan (PG) biosynthesis. PG is polymerized by penicillin-binding-proteins

At Life Sciences Good Morning Britain as @ReviewOnAMR shows frightening growth in resistance to #antibiotics.

#Antibiotics are certainly not being 'given out like sweets' to patients by GPs says Tim Ballard BBC Radio 5 Live #AMR. Figures show lowest in 5yrs

21st Century Alternative to Penicillin #AMR x.com/richardgaisfor…

Dorothy Hodgkin used X-rays to crack the structures of penicillin, insulin, and vitamin B12. #science