Biotechnology Focus Podcast

087 | Shifting thoughts and actions     Welcome to another episode of Biotechnology Focus radio! I am your host – Michelle Currie – here to give you the rundown on the Canadian biotech scene. This week sheds light on antibacterial resistance and how that will change the course of the world on a widespread scale if our patterns do not change, how pharmacogenomics has become a new era in precision health, and how there may be a link between poor muscle health and type 1 diabetes.   Listen on to find out more!  ++++++  Ever consider a world where surgery was no longer an option? It is the unfortunate truth that if society does not slow the progression rate of antimicrobial resistance, life as we have come to know it will no longer be our future.  Antimicrobial resistance threatens the effective prevention and treatment of an ever-increasing range of infections caused by bacteria, parasites, viruses, and fungi. Without such means of effective treatment, it will compromise therapies that have been us