Our very own Dr Christina Lee featured on the Radio 4's Today Programme this morning. You can catch up on her interview by following this link:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05nswn9#playt=2h44m10s
There's also a video explaining more about the AncientBiotics project, and why it's exciting people from across the disciplines, below:
" Dr Christina Lee has enlisted the help of microbiologists from University’s Centre for Biomolecular Sciences to recreate a 9th Century potion for eye infections from Bald’s Leechbook, an Old English leatherbound volume in the British Library, to see if it really works as an antibacterial remedy. The Leechbook is widely thought of as one of the earliest known medical textbooks and contains Anglo-Saxon medical advice and recipes for medicines, salves and treatments.
Early results on the 'potion', tested in vitro at Nottingham and backed up by mouse model tests at a university in the United States, are, in the words of the US collaborator, “astonishing”. The solution has had remarkable effects on Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) which is one of the most antibiotic-resistant bugs costing modern health services billions."
Posted on Monday 30th March 2015