May 14, 2020
YC startup Felix wants to replace antibiotics with programmable viruses
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: biotech/medical, food
This could essentially in the wrong hands be very bad but in the positive ways it could cure anything.
Right now the world is at war. But this is no ordinary war. It’s a fight with an organism so small we can only detect it through use of a microscope — and if we don’t stop it, it could kill millions of us in the next several decades. No, I’m not talking about COVID-19, though that organism is the one on everyone’s mind right now. I’m talking about antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
You see, more than 700,000 people died globally from bacterial infections last year — 35,000 of them in the U.S. If we do nothing, that number could grow to 10 million annually by 2050, according to a United Nations report.
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