A patient who picks up an infection in hospital needs the right antibiotic quickly.

Working out which drugs the infection still responds to can take days by standard culture testing.

Clinicians prescribe broadly while they wait, and that broad prescribing is one of the ways drug resistance spreads.

India records high rates of drug-resistant infections.

was founded in 2020 to apply CRISPR, the gene editing technology, to this very problem and others like it.