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Come and try our strawberry DNA extraction! 🍓Find out how this technique can be used by scientists to diagnose infections and choose which antibiotics to prescribe 💊
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We're ready at the @oxfordbrc.bsky.social! Come over and extract strawberry DNA, fight super bugs on the dance mat, or solve the mystery of the hospital outbreak!
#AMR #PublicOutreach #Science
NIHR webinar on BashTheBug on YouTube
BashTheBug was originally a large international citizen science project that invited anyone to help us classify how well different samples of M. tuberculosis grew in the presence of a range of antibiotics. It ran from 2017 to 2021 and in that time 46,427…
And our DNA detective programme was a smash🕵♀️ Follow the bioinformatic instructions to figure out which patient in a ward has which infection, and work out from the hints which drugs will help the patient get better!
Thanks to the team for all their hardwork preparing and delivering the activities, especially in this heatwave! 🌞🌞🌞
The Mystery Outbreak poster was a hit! A cluedo-esque mystery where you had to follow the clues to find the source of illness in the hospital 🔍
Everybody loved the strawberry DNA extractions!🍓 Participants learnt how this technique can be used by scientists to diagnose infections in patients and the data used by doctors to see if the infection has any resistance and then choose which antibiotics to prescribe🧬
@oxfordbrc.bsky.social
We had an amazing time in Westgate, Oxford today!
We had many attempts to 'bash the bug' and get the high score for the day on our dance mat 💃🕺 where overusing antibiotics causes resistance so you have to be careful what you're prescribing!💊
#AMR #ScienceOutreach #Microbiology #Oxford
Come see us at the @oxfordbrc.bsky.social showcase! We'll be in Westgate, Oxford 10-3.30.
We'll be bringing the dance mat so come and try to beat the germs with antibiotics and claim the high score💃🕺
#AMR #PublicOutreach @ox.ac.uk
Sometimes, food can look good & still make you sick.
You can reduce your risk of illness incl. by:
✅ Cooking meat all the way through
✅ Washing fruit & vegetable with safe water
✅ Keeping food at safe temp.
🆕 WHO estimates of the global burden of foodborne diseases 2026 ed. https://bit.ly/4dQyKQI
BashTheBug was originally a large international citizen science project that invited anyone to help us classify how well different samples of M. tuberculosis grew in the presence of a range of antibiotics. It ran from 2017 to 2021 and in that time 46,427 people took part and collectively they classified 4,746,420 images of M. tuberculosis growing on different concentrations of one of 13 antibiotics.
