Antibiotic discovery
Subject in Medicine
Antibiotic discovery has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including TED Radio Hour. 1 person has made recorded remarks about it.
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Anne MaddenMicrobiologist and founder and chief scientist of the Microbe Institute
Madden recounts that her pharmaceutical team found slow-growing soil microbes producing novel antibiotics, though not yet commercialized.
“these bizarre, slow-growing, tenacious little critters were creating novel antibiotics. And though they haven't been commercialized yet, we were successful in finding them”
TED Radio Hour: The shocking power of tiny things (Oct 9, 2026) · Listen from 7:12
Podcasts
- TED Radio Hour · 1 episode
Episodes
The shocking power of tiny thingsTED Radio Hour · Oct 9, 2026 · 50 min
Manoush Zomorodi and TED speakers Anne Madden, Lera Boroditsky, YeYoon Kim and Bart Weetjens explore how tiny things—microbes, words, moments, rats—wield outsized power.