分类目录归档：antibiotics
This is my great uncle,
my father's father's younger brother.
His name was Joe McKenna.
He was a young husband and a semi-pro basketball player
and a fireman in New York City.
Family history says he l
Take a moment
and think about a virus.
What comes to your mind?
An illness?
A fear?
Probably something really unpleasant.
And yet, viruses are not all the same.
It's true, some of them cause devastati
So how are we going to beat this novel coronavirus?
By using our best tools:
our science and our technology.
In my lab, we're using the tools of artificial intelligence
and synthetic biology
to speed
Antibiotics: behind the scenes, they enable much of modern medicine.
We use them to cure infectious diseases,
but also to safely facilitate everything from surgery to chemotherapy
to organ transplan
[Music]
so
[Applause]
by now we're all very familiar with the
coronavirus pandemic
more familiar than we ever hoped to be
but did you know that there is
another pandemic not one that spikes in
a matte