Growing antibiotic resistance, security and clarity for French science, push for gender parity…

This week in Nations in brief: Time to tackle growing antibiotic resistance; Security and clarity for French science; Push for gender parity; Record spending in Hesse; Open data on its way; Science official resigns amid corruption scandal.

Time to tackle growing antibiotic resistance

Germany’s academy of sciences, Leopoldina, has called on government and academics to improve antibiotics research. It said that growing bacteria resistance caused by years of antibiotics overuse was a serious challenge for humankind and that more collaboration between industry, patients, politics and academia was needed to tackle the problem.