Drugs from the deep: new hope for the future

Drugs from the deep: new hope for the future

The drugs don’t work as well these days. As diseases such as tuberculosis and golden staph become resistant to our treatments, Amalyah Hart dives deep in the search for new antibiotics. In October 2013, a British research vessel carrying a team of scientists set sail from Santa Cruz, on the island of Tenerife, Spain. Its destination was the Caribbean island of Trinidad, by way of a deep scar in the seafloor known as the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. On bo…