VIDEO: Kit helps kids chasing new antibiotics

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Kit helps kids chasing new antibiotics

September 27, 2015 at 00:14 clock Last updated BST

Vidhi Mehta designer and entrepreneur has a kit of biology that work with an application that is designed to help the children "citizen scientists ''.

Allows its research crowdsourcing, as a hunting materials with antibiotic properties.

All kinds of materials in nature can have this power, from honey Turmeric, the butterfly wings. Children looking for their natural environment, the test samples in a petri dish, before downloading the results.

The project aims to students all over the world, so it can help a global map of the materials with antibiotics materials professional scientists can then deepen.

Vidhi Mehta revealed the kit for the BBC at the Royal College of Art to show grade I.

Video Journalist: Dougal Shaw

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