Podcast: Understanding antimicrobial resistance - with Gabriel Astorga

Gabriel Astorga explains how microbes like bacteria get resistant to treatments, how this impacts our lives, and what's the link between cowboy hats and TB?

Listen time: 33:02
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How do microbes including bacteria become resistant to treatment? What can we do to prevent it? And why do we have tuberculosis to thank for the creation of cowboy hats? This month, PhD student and award-winning science communicator Gabriel Astorga joins us to answer all these questions and more, as we look under the hood of antimicrobial resistance.  

Producer: Lia Hale 
Music: Joseph Sandy