{"id":70631,"date":"2018-12-15T06:10:30","date_gmt":"2018-12-15T11:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/?p=70631"},"modified":"2018-12-08T21:17:49","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T02:17:49","slug":"how-a-long-forgotten-virus-could-help-us-solve-the-antibiotics-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/?p=70631","title":{"rendered":"How a long-forgotten virus could help us solve the antibiotics crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Viruses have a bad reputation &#8212; but some of them could one day save your life, says biotech entrepreneur Alexander Belcredi. In this fascinating talk, he introduces us to phages, naturally-occurring viruses that hunt and kill harmful bacteria with deadly precision, and shows how these once-forgotten organisms could provide new hope against the growing threat of antibiotic-resistant superbugs.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tFfYh9THuGo\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Check out more TED Talks: <a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&amp;v=tFfYh9THuGo&amp;q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ted.com&amp;redir_token=XYkMYLcdvkxD4C98VbvhniQ1Kfp8MTU0NDQwODAxNUAxNTQ0MzIxNjE1\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.ted.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Viruses have a bad reputation &#8212; but some of them could one day save your life, says biotech entrepreneur Alexander Belcredi. In this fascinating talk, he introduces us to phages, naturally-occurring viruses that hunt and kill harmful bacteria with deadly precision, and shows how these once-forgotten organisms could provide new hope against the growing threat of antibiotic-resistant superbugs. Check out more TED Talks: http:\/\/www.ted.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":70352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127,3],"tags":[97,551,456],"class_list":["post-70631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-edu","category-tech","tag-education","tag-education-saturday","tag-ted-talks"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70632,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70631\/revisions\/70632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}