Antibiotics of the new generation will be found on the ocean floor
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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To date, doctors all over the world say that because of the widespread and ill-considered use of antibiotics, the so-called apocalypse will soon come on the planet. Anxiety is caused by the fact that already now the human body refuses to perceive some antibiotics as medications. Doctors say that the human body is able to get used to the action of an antibiotic, and in just a few decades, many medicines will not cope with infections. Bacteria do not react to drugs, which, nevertheless, have an adverse effect on the work of the internal organs of man.
Researchers from the UK said that they are soon ready to start looking for new substances of natural origin. According to data that scientists from the United Kingdom have, new antibiotics will be extracted in the depths of the world's oceans. At great depth, researchers expect to discover unknown chemical substances that can prevent the "apocalypse", which will certainly come if new drugs are not invented.
Leaders of the research group from the UK reported that in the deepest depressions of the ocean, living organisms have the property of survival in the most extreme conditions. At the same time, many organisms inhabiting the depth develop independently of each other and can exist without contact. Scientists believe that at the depth of the ocean they have a chance to discover chemicals that will help create a completely new generation of semisynthetic antibiotics.
The first samples the researchers plan to take from the bottom of the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. Once the bacteria and fungi found are properly studied, scientists will try to grow similar examples of living organisms, which will later help in the development of new medicines.
If new medicines are not invented as an alternative to modern antibiotics, scientists warn that in 15-20 years now known virus infections will stop reacting to modern antibiotics. At the moment, all known bacteria and viruses are increasingly showing resistance to the drugs used. Some scientists compare the "antibiotic crisis" in importance with global warming, and British scientists warn that the resistance of viruses to all antibiotics can lead to the fact that humanity will, roughly speaking, take a few steps back in its medical development and return to that position , when only theoretical discussions were about antibiotics.
The first to be explored is the South American depression, in the autumn of this year a research group from Britain plans to sink to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean to study bacteria and fungi at a depth of 160 meters. Scientists plan to finish the expedition in 18-20 months and in case of successful research new antibiotics will see the world in 10-12 years.
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