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Kiss kiss, bang bang: When Plasma Physics kisses bacteria goodbye

Angela Privat-Maldonado

  • 26 September 2014
    8.05pm - 8.20pm

  • York Medical Society (map)

  • FREE admission
    No booking required

  • Wheelchair accessible

Event details

In an ever-changing environment, microbes are developing resistance to some of the common drugs we use to fight infections. Scientists are using the ionized gas called ‘plasma’ to kill microbes in the lab. We will look at the potential use of plasmas to eliminate pathogens that cause or live in skin wounds, and consider what makes plasma suitable for human treatment, its safety and its long-term effect on microbes.