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Microbe Found In Grassy Field Contains Powerful Antibiotic
sciencehabit writes For much of the last decade, a team of researchers in Boston has eagerly exhumed and reburied dirt. It's part of a strategy to access an untapped source of new antibiotics—the estimated 99% of microbes in the environment that refuse to grow in laboratories. Now, their technique has yielded a promising lead: a previously unknown bacterium that makes a compound with infection-killing abilities. What's more, the team claims in a report out today, the compound is unlikely to fall prey to the problem of antibiotic resistance. That suggestion has its skeptics, but if the drug makes it through clinical trials, it would be a much needed weapon against several increasingly hard-to-treat infections.
Finding things that kill bacteria is easy. Finding things that kill bacteria and do not significantly harm the host, now that is the hard part.
Even by Slashdot's own TL;DR: summary, the title of this is wrong. Its not the new antibiotic in 30+ years that's astonishing, its the technique used in the experiment because it allows scientists to get easier access to those microbes that wouldn't grow in a lab. That hurdle is now a thing of the past.
nuke it from orbit. it's the only way to be sure.
I hate mirobes that refuse to grow in labs. I've had supposed urinary infections that wouldn't grow in the lab, I was surprised when my urologist told me I had many infections refuse to grow in the lab. Lucky, the antibiotics seamed to work!!
It needs to treat "BadJoke-itis"
The perfunctory use of antibiotics in factory farms is engineering a bacterial plague that will resist all our medicines and will be devastating once it becomes infectious to humans.
With this new antibiotic in our arsenal, we can merrily continue to pump our livestock full of antibiotics all day, without ever worrying about future harmful consequences.
We have solved this problem for good. Carry on!
The cure for that would also fix "Jesus is Lord" infection too.
And how many people were murdered over Piss Christ?
That would be ZERO.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crusades
Can somebody who knows more about antibiotics and bacterial evolution please explain something to me. If we keep taking natural antibiotics from nature, mass manufacture them, won't we just train the world's bacterial populations to be immune to practically anything we can throw at them? I know if used wisely this would not happen but we all know that profit (or stupidity) driven people will sooner or later use this stuff in ways that will ruin these drugs, doctors will hand them out to anybody who has a mild cold or just prescribe them to any hysterical parent with a new born to get rid of them and sooner or later the Chinese, or the Americans (the practice is banned in the EU) will make these drugs by the barrel and mix them into animal feed or otherwise administer them in huge quantities to livestock like they did with Tamiflu and which ruined that drug.
beef farms can continue to hold their stock densely. People can continue to eat flesh every day.
And how many people were murdered over Piss Christ?
How many die in Africa from sexually transmitted disease that is preventable through prophylactic use of condoms?
Your mistake was assuming that the things that upset Muslims to irrational behavior and violence would also have a parallel in Christianity. Huge cultural difference between the people of those two religions, but both are harmful to society and quite insane.
We should all have more dirt in our diets...
-AlPhAbEt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crusades
Pathetic loser attempts to use events of a thousand fucking years ago to justify and excuse Islam-inspired mass murder just a few hours ago.
Dude, you have a Thalidomide brain.
Additionally, all those unvoluntarily concieved children the church always wanted but doesn't feed, resulting in them dying of hunger.
Why not? The microbe in the grassy knoll was the real Kennedy shooter.
Every sperm is sacred.
Every sperm is great.
If a sperm is wasted,
God gets quite irate.
Russians looking for phage in sewers?
Oh, right, it's Russian therefore it can't be good.
How many die in Africa from sexually transmitted disease that is preventable through prophylactic use of condoms?
Religion is not really the problem. The real problem is ancient tribal culture that says real men have lots of children, a cultural belief that predates the adoption of christianity.
Pathetic loser attempts to use events of a thousand fucking years ago to justify and excuse Islam-inspired mass murder just a few hours ago.
Dude, you have a Thalidomide brain.
Well then, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Norway_attacks.
5% of the general population are sociopaths; 1% are psychopaths. So in any sufficiently large group you you will find plenty of individuals acting in deplorable ways -- even horrifically deplorable. Christians, Muslims, rural Southerners, lesbian golfers, people who like avocados -- any group is bound to have it's share of monsters.
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Africa has more Catholics than all of Europe. Religion, and specifically Christianity is a factor here.
And the Church's stance on the issue of anything that can function as a contraceptive is well known.
I'm not sure why you are trying to apologize for the Catholic Church with misleading statements about tribal customs that are nearly universal among cultures, including that of the vast majority of Christianity. All you did was argue that all religion and superstitious is a problem, which I suspect was not your intention.
You kill half the bugs, the bugs remaining develop resistance to the antibiotic ..
Pathetic loser attempts to use events of a thousand fucking years ago to justify and excuse Islam-inspired mass murder just a few hours ago.
Dude, you have a Thalidomide brain.
Well then, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Norway_attacks.
5% of the general population are sociopaths; 1% are psychopaths. So in any sufficiently large group you you will find plenty of individuals acting in deplorable ways -- even horrifically deplorable. Christians, Muslims, rural Southerners, lesbian golfers, people who like avocados -- any group is bound to have it's share of monsters.
Beslan
9/11
Madrid
London
Mumbai.
Funny, you mention sociopaths and psychopaths.
And your one example is a lone killer.
Got the stones to look at the images resulting from acts ORGANIZED and PLANNED by GROUPS in the name of ISLAM that I found in about 30 seconds?
I hate mirobes that refuse to grow in labs.
Was it a black lab
Researchers in Boston found a substance that can destroy living things without any possible defense. The rest of us call it the Charles River.
If we really want to avoid antibiotic resistance, we should start by banning their preventive use on cattle. Such treated animals have bowels full of resistant bugs.
They'll rape anything that takes their fancy, they're not picky.
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Every antibiotic that we've commercially produced has eventually triggered resistance mechanisms in the targeted bacteria. There are no exceptions to this. It's not likely to happen under lab conditions mentioned in the article, but it's certain to happen from widespread utilization in hospitals and clinics because "super bacteria" are naturally selected over many generations of exposure. This reminds me of when daptomycin was approved and first marketed in the US. It also relied on a different mechanism of action from other cell-wall antibiotics and there were similar claims of no known resistance...which was true at the time but that wasn't the case for long. It's still one of our big guns for MRSA and VRE, but treatment failure is possible.
Got the stones to look at the images resulting from acts ORGANIZED and PLANNED by GROUPS in the name of ISLAM that I found in about 30 seconds?
In every war the US has gone into the president has mentioned God.
Or does that not count because the government isn't and organized group that planned things?
It totally fixes both. You just stuff the dirt with these microbes into their mouth until it is full. Then they need to snort the remainder of the dirt through their nose. Five minutes after the nose is full, the person is cured.
Sleep your way to a whiter smile...date a dentist!
I have yet to see anyone explain to me the difference between sociopaths and psychopaths. Two words for the same thing.
That GOD rhetoric looks damn riduculous when viewed from the other side of the atlantic ocean btw. A major reason why you are losing european support I think. Europe has largely abandoned religions. Like it or not. At the very least we have particularly abandoned reasoning our actions by "god said so".
You forgot Poland *scnr*
"It's such a fine line between stupid and clever" -- David St. Hubbins, Spinal Tap
Is it Pomegranate? If not they should look at that took. Pomegranate may be literally perfect. It inhibits bad gut bacteria and promotes beneficial ones like Bifidobacterium
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pm...
Look at this chart, it is quite possibly the greatest modulator of gut bacteria ever http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pm...
IANA psychologist, but here's the armchair difference as I understand it: Sociopathic behavior is driven by some misguided version of self-interest, whereas psychopathic behavior acts without regard to self-interest. For a simple (over)generalization, if you piss off a murderous sociopath, he will stalk you and attempt to kill you at a time and in a manner where he believes he's most likely to get away with it. If you piss off a murderous psychopath, he will likely attempt to kill you immediately with whatever he happens to have at hand, up to and including strangling you with his bare hands in front of a group of law enforcement officers.
Redundancy is good And also good.
Especially those who like avocados.
There's no time like the present. Well, the past used to be.
"All you did was argue that all religion and superstitious is a problem, which I suspect was not your intention."
I don't know if it was their intention, but it damn sure is mine. All religions need to go they way of Zeus and be remembered as nothing more than a fanciful myth.