Xenetics-Pioneering Microbial Tools To Rid Antibiotic Resistance

Riya Mehta
5 min readApr 26, 2020

All around the world, we experience many problems on a daily basis, especially when it comes to our health. By far one of the greatest public health issues to ever exist is antibiotic resistance. Antibiotic resistance is predicted to cause around 10 million deaths each year by 2050 and currently 700,000 people die every year due to drug resistant diseases. It occurs when bacteria…

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Riya Mehta

I am a 16 year old student who is passionate about biotechnology and international medicine. Currently an innovator at TKS & working with Sick Kids Hospital!