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The BBC Report on new antibiotic kit tested at the Cedars School. The Cedars is one of three pioneering schools to be involved in Post/Biotics, an award winning research kit developed by industrial designer, Vidhi Mehta in conjunction with Imperial College London, University of Chicago and the Royal College of Art. The subject of anitbiotic research is a particularly hot topic in the news and this invention has been reported by the BBC, Wired and interest is growing.
Pupils at The Cedars have been involved in the initial stages of the research project, testing the kits and providing feedback and suggestions for improvements before the kits go into full production and distribution. The kits will work with an app that allows children to test their surroundings and with the aim of discovering new antibiotics and to become ”citizen scientists”.
The estimated cost of antimicrobial resistance is 10 million deaths per annum by 2050 and there is an urgent need to find new antibiotics. Most antibiotics known to us today have been developed from natural extracts: soil, plants, insects, deep-sea beds and volcanoes. Post/Biotics distributes the kits and feeds back the empirical research by creating a global STEM educational platform, which allows students to participate in discovering substances with antimicrobial values by sampling their surroundings.
The Cedars are proud to be part of this pioneering research which may lead to the discovery of new life-saving antibiotics by a ‘citizen scientist’.
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