Four Latin American research teams just won backing to fight drug resistance and stress in plants

The Pew Charitable Trusts funded four new biomedical research partnerships in Latin America, pairing past Pew fellows with collaborators in Brazil and Argentina. In Rio de Janeiro, Priscilla Olsen and Beatriz Patricio will test a new strategy against antimicrobial drug resistance — germs that no longer respond to medicines — while São Paulo researchers study how plants sense invaders, and an Argentine team examines how living things adjust gene activity under stress.

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