We live in a brief moment where bacterial infections do not routinely kill people...which is coming to a close. Each day, the medicines we use to treat bacterial infection are getting a little less effective and there are not enough new drugs coming to market. The Overground crew discuss a technology that uses viruses to kill bacterial infections, and the hard choices that confront new technologies throughout the world.
Featured Technology: Phage Lysins https://www.rockefeller.edu/technology-transfer/technologies/infectiousdiseases/fischettilysins/; future technologies to come from UC San Diego Center for Innovative Phage Applications and Therapeutics https://medschool.ucsd.edu/som/medicine/divisions/idgph/research/center-innovative-phage-applications-and-therapeutics/Pages/default.aspx 
Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr (@dare2scherr); Joe Runge (@HJRunge)
Sponsor:  UNeMed (https://www.unemed.com); @UNeMed
Music: Countdown to Myocardial Infarction, by Peter Gresser. Used with permission. http://sonofactori.com/