The World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week (#WAAW) starts tomorrow, but at the #HIRI, the battle against #AntibioticResistance is a year-round task. We are searching for new targets in various germs, as conventional antibiotics are becoming increasingly ineffective: https://www.helmholtz-hiri.de/en/newsroom/features-stories/the-silent-pandemic/

One promising solution are programmable antibiotics, ASOs, studied by the laboratory of HIRI Director Jörg Vogel. They target #mRNAs needed by bacteria to synthesize new proteins & replicate.