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A virus that could heal people

A virus that could heal people

FromUnexplainable


A virus that could heal people

FromUnexplainable

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Length:
25 minutes
Released:
Apr 28, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

In 2016, the UN declared antibiotic-resistant bacteria the “greatest and most urgent global risk.” Our best hope just might be phages, or viruses that attack bacteria. Phages’ potential is enormous, but so is everything we don’t know about them.
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Released:
Apr 28, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Unexplainable is a science show about everything we don’t know. Host Noam Hassenfeld is joined by an array of experts and Vox reporters each week to look at the most fascinating unanswered questions in science and the mind-bending ways scientists are trying to answer them. New episodes drop every Wednesday starting March 10. From Vox and the Vox Media Podcast Network.