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DARPA Requests Replacement To Antibiotics
eldavojohn writes "In the grand scheme of things, antibiotics are a very temporary solution to aid humans in combating bacteria. Bacterial resistance to said antibiotics is an increasing fear and DARPA's 'Rapidly Adaptable Nanotherapeutics' solicitation reveals they're interested in a more permanent solution as modifying the genes of harmless bacteria can result in powerful bioweapons. Like siRNA, DARPA is hoping for more nanomolecules that can specifically target cells and deliver medicine to them anywhere in the body. Most amazing about this proposal is that it's aimed at small businesses and hopes to turn a process that takes decades to study a new antibiotic into a few weeks to manufacture nanomedicine to specifically target bacteria."
Troll much? Your mistake was mentioning the word "Chiropractor." /. is a place for real science discussion.
While he is a troll, you're about 50 years behind the times if you think chiropractics is not "real science". It may not be half the things crazed, ultra-vegan proselytizers claim it is, but neither are hemp clothing, crystal therapy, or rose hips. That doesn't mean we stop using hemp plants, rocks, or herbs where they are useful to human life.
Chiropractics can put people back to work who previously suffered debilitating pain which nothing short of heroin could even dent. It's scientifically proven effective even if it isn't as scientifically understood as most allopathic therapies (and you'd be amazed how many approved pharmaceuticals suffer exactly the same paradox).
God, if there's one thing I can't stand in scientific discussion it's insouciant little fuckwits life you who can't distinguish between following scientific principles and looking down their noses at every therapy or principle which didn't begin and end its formal trials in a laboratory. Well, people who think it's 'scientific' to smugly doubt every theory until it's proven better than 99.99% likely are a close second.