A 19-year-old high school student in canton Basel-Country has come up with a way to combat drug-resistant bacteria and has been awarded for it.
Nora Artico from Münchenstein wrote in her Matura theses that she had discovered five E.coli phages that could be used.
She told the press that phages are a possible alternative to antibiotics.
She secured fecal samples from Basel Zoo and analysed them at the ETH in Zurich. As she discovered them, she was allowed to name them.
She's picked up two prizes – her matura won a Swiss Youth Research award and a special prize from the European Union Contest for Young Scientists.
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