The Antibiotic Zone

It’s easy to call your doctor when you’re sick and get an antibiotic prescribed. In a quest to curb antibiotic resistance, I turned to the soil. I looked in a flower bed outside my house for promising antibiotic-producing bacteria. I screened multiple soil candidates for their antibiotic activity and identified potential antibiotic-producing candidates using metabolic and genetic approaches. This research could help us scientists create a novel antibiotic.