Tag: microbes

Living with microbes

Nandini Dholepat
The Backyard Discovery group learns about the many roles of bacteria and how they shape our world: there are some that heal, others that harm, and quite a few that even help plants grow.

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Superbug stories: Finding our place in a complex health problem

Somdatta Karak
If you thought COVID-19 was the worst pandemic to hit mankind, you will be wrong. We have another faceless enemy already amidst us and growing bigger every year. Indiscriminate use of antibiotics by man has led to the evolution of superbugs—bacteria and virus that can resist the strongest of antibiotics. We need to wage a war against Anti-Microbial Resistance right now and literature and other art forms can become powerful tools that will help us fight this pandemic.

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