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Defeating the superbugs! On your mobile

6 July 2016

antibiotic-game

A new mobile app, designed to promote awareness of antibiotic resistance, has been launched today by the Longitude Prize*.

, developed with advice from 果冻影院 Eastman researchers, challenges 11-16 year olds to fight bacteria using existing and new antibiotics.

Players must to survive for as long as they can and are rewarded with scientific facts at the end of each play.

果冻影院 Eastman鈥檚 Dr Adam Roberts, who advised the makers of the game, said: 鈥淚t鈥檚 the younger generation who, through no fault of their own, will have to live with the consequences of antibiotic resistance if current trends continue.

鈥淭his app is aimed at them so they can understand the consequences of misuse, something that our generation have thoroughly failed to grasp鈥.

Superbugs is available for both iOS and Android mobile platforms from

* is a five year, 拢10 million challenge to tackle the issue of antibiotic resistance