• Question: why does drawing pretty pictures with bacteria help solve the problems of antibiotic resistance? >:(

    Asked by fenrir to Thomas, Donna on 16 Jun 2017. This question was also asked by 745drgj22.
    • Photo: Thomas Booth

      Thomas Booth answered on 16 Jun 2017:

      Maybe this question would be better answered by Donna!

      I suppose it can be used to raise awareness of the problem.

    • Photo: Donna Johnson

      Donna Johnson answered on 20 Jun 2017:

      It doesn’t directly. What i think (hope) it would do is to provide an interesting forum to learn about lots of different things about bacteria, like how they grow, why they produce colours and then link those things to similarities in how they become resistant. Hopefully doing something a bit different and fun will inspire people to think about working in microbiology. Plus it would give people the opportunity to handle bacteria and learn some of the fundamental techniques we use in microbiology.

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