Biologist Nataliia Machushynets felt like she was “looking for a needle in a haystack,” trying to find new antibiotics to help solve the problem of resistance. During her Ph.D. research, she did find what she was looking for, in the soil beneath our feet. Biologist Nataliia Machushynets felt like she was “looking for a needle in a haystack,” trying to find new antibiotics to help solve the problem of resistance. During her Ph.D. research, she did find what she was looking for, in the soil beneath our feet. Cell & Microbiology Molecular & Computational biology Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories