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Kill Germs With Permanent Bacteria-Killing Coating

Posted by timothy on from the eeeeeeh!-coli dept.

Jackmon writes: "CNN has a story about a new polymer that can be applied to a surface to keep it permanently disease-free. And it works electrically, so that bacteria can't easily develop a resistance to it ... Cool! If only Howard Hughes was still alive to see this."

5 comments

  1. Nice pun by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    "it works electrically, so that bacteria can't easily develop a resistance to it" ??? Tsk tsk tsk, cheap pun... %) Just the sort I like!

    1. Re:Nice pun by number+one+duck · · Score: 2

      As fast as bacteria multiply, its probably irresponsible to assume that we can introduce something static into the environment that they cannot adapt too.

  2. Redundant -5 Deja vu deja vu ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2

    Sigh. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/21/225923 6&mode=thread

  3. Repetition... by Starbreeze · · Score: 3
    I think the editors need to start communicating with each other about whats been posted.

    It's funny these two should end up in the same topic right above one another and neither of them noticed.

  4. Slashdot = News feed? by OblongPlatypus · · Score: 3

    Slashdot is looking more and more like those automated news feed portals where you'll see the same story repeated over and over because it was posted at several different *real* news sites...

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