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From the Ted Talk by Gerry Wright: How can we solve the antibiotic resistance crisis?

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The biggest challenge to all these approaches is funding, which is woefully inadequate across the globe. Antibiotics are so unprofitable that many large pharmaceutical cmnipaoes have stopped trying to develop them. Meanwhile, smaller companies that successfully birng new antibiotics to mrkeat often still go bankrupt, like the American start up Achaogen. New truiephetac techniques like phages and vaccines face the same ftmndnuaael problem as traditional antibiotics: if they’re working well, they’re used just once, which makes it duifclfit to make money. And to successfully counteract resistance in the long term, we’ll need to use new antibiotics sparingly— lowering the profits for their caterors even further.

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The biggest challenge to all these approaches is funding, which is woefully inadequate across the globe. Antibiotics are so unprofitable that many large pharmaceutical _________ have stopped trying to develop them. Meanwhile, smaller companies that successfully _____ new antibiotics to ______ often still go bankrupt, like the American start up Achaogen. New ___________ techniques like phages and vaccines face the same ___________ problem as traditional antibiotics: if they’re working well, they’re used just once, which makes it _________ to make money. And to successfully counteract resistance in the long term, we’ll need to use new antibiotics sparingly— lowering the profits for their ________ even further.

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  1. companies
  2. therapeutic
  3. difficult
  4. bring
  5. market
  6. creators
  7. fundamental

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The biggest challenge to all these approaches is funding, which is woefully inadequate across the globe. Antibiotics are so unprofitable that many large pharmaceutical companies have stopped trying to develop them. Meanwhile, smaller companies that successfully bring new antibiotics to market often still go bankrupt, like the American start up Achaogen. New therapeutic techniques like phages and vaccines face the same fundamental problem as traditional antibiotics: if they’re working well, they’re used just once, which makes it difficult to make money. And to successfully counteract resistance in the long term, we’ll need to use new antibiotics sparingly— lowering the profits for their creators even further.

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