Tonight, the Perpetual Notion Machine is so honored to have Dr. Jo Handelsman as our guest. Jo has an extensive resume in the sciences that includes Director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery (WID), a Vilas Research Professor in plant pathology at UW-Madison, induction into the National Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2019, science […]
Finding Bacteria on Insects for New Antibiotics
You should be aware that we have a health crisis! More and more bacterial diseases, such as Staphylococcus and Strep pneumonia, have become resistant to those antibiotics that previously killed the disease. The current strategy is to find new sources of antibiotics in nature. Soil has been the major source, but some scientists, including right […]
