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'Time-Travelling' Bugs Resist Antibiotics Of The Future
New Scientist ^
| 6-6-2008
| Ewen Callaway
Posted on 06/06/2008 8:14:49 PM PDT by blam
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posted on
06/06/2008 8:14:49 PM PDT
by
blam
To: blam
Future-predicting bacteria?
Give me a friggin break. Just because they are resistant to an antibiotic before it's been developed doesn't make the some kind of super time traveling bug. It makes them resistant to a drug.
This is what is wrong with the media, they are so eager to sensationalize everything.
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posted on
06/06/2008 8:20:26 PM PDT
by
chaos_5
(Proud to be one of the 10% not rallying around McCain)
To: blam
(ducking) Maybe they were designed that way...
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posted on
06/06/2008 8:22:25 PM PDT
by
The Electrician
("Government is the only enterprise in the world which expands in size when its failures increase.")
To: chaos_5
I think the headline was influenced by the new version of the movie “Andromeda Strain”, where the disease was sent by the future to stop a sulfur vent mining project / save the environment.
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posted on
06/06/2008 8:23:34 PM PDT
by
tbw2
("Sirat: Through the Fires of Hell" by Tamara Wilhite - on amazon.com)
To: blam
You mean it wasn't our antibacterial soap?
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posted on
06/06/2008 8:24:25 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
To: blam
If there were no bacteria resistant to a new antibiotic when it is first introduced, then none would survive to become the dominant type.
Populations of any type are diverse.
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posted on
06/06/2008 8:25:12 PM PDT
by
js1138
To: tbw2
I made the mistake of watching that.
As the kids say: It “suktd”.
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posted on
06/06/2008 8:26:34 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
To: tbw2
Agree about the recent release of the remake of the “Andromeda Strain” inspiring this. For those who haven't seen it, avoid it. Stick with the original. The new one got so preachy by the time it painfully ended 4 hours later I didn't care what happened to the main characters. And I liked them in previous roles.
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posted on
06/06/2008 8:29:19 PM PDT
by
Hillarys Gate Cult
(The man who said "there's no such thing as a stupid question" has never talked to Helen Thomas.)
To: blam
WHAT? You mean dirt is dirty?
To: blam
Nah, maybe evolution just isn’t real (macroevolution)..God, The Lord designed them that way..
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posted on
06/06/2008 8:55:16 PM PDT
by
JSDude1
(It;s only a protest vote if your political worldview is Republican 1st, conservative 2nd-pissant)
To: DaveLoneRanger
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posted on
06/06/2008 8:56:14 PM PDT
by
JSDude1
(It;s only a protest vote if your political worldview is Republican 1st, conservative 2nd-pissant)
To: blam
This might be why humans don’t eat dirt.
To: blam
Many antibiotics are based on naturally occurring compounds, for example penicillin. If the bacteria are exposed to the precursors to current antibiotics, they will develop a resistance to anything derived from the precursor. There is no need to invoke time-travel.
It might be wiser to develop an antibiotic that uses the bacterium's own systems against it, or to make it more vulnerable to be body's own defenses
To: chaos_5
Future-predicting bacteria? Calm down...no one is suggesting the bacteria actually travelled through time it's what we in the business call "hyperbole".
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posted on
06/06/2008 9:16:32 PM PDT
by
garbanzo
(Government is not the solution to our problems. Government is the problem.)
To: js1138
If there were no bacteria resistant to a new antibiotic when it is first introduced, then none would survive to become the dominant type. Populations of any type are diverse.
Celebrate diversity.
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posted on
06/06/2008 9:23:44 PM PDT
by
mkjessup
(Romania had the Ceausescus, America has the Clintons.)
To: blam
Sure, dig it up! Pass it around, handle it. Just couldn’t leave it alone, could we?
To: tbw2
I think the headline was influenced by the new version of the movie “Andromeda Strain”, where the disease was sent by the future to stop a sulfur vent mining project / save the environment.
Wow! I'm glad I gave up on it before it got that far!
To: blam
There's something wrong here. I have it from
http://www.galtoninstitute.org.uk/Newsletters/GINL0409/Powers_of_Natural_Selection.htm
that ...
A very striking example of rapid directional selection since the Second World War has been selection for resistance to antibiotics, herbicides and pesticides. ‘The Murray Collection is a series of reference strains of harmful bacteria gathered between 1914 and 1950 … Every strain is … susceptible to every one of the dozens of antibiotics used today’. (Jones, 1999).
To: SunkenCiv
May be of interest. Well I doubt it, but here it is. lol
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posted on
06/06/2008 10:21:51 PM PDT
by
KoRn
(CTHULHU '08 - I won't settle for a lesser evil any longer!)
To: blam
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posted on
06/06/2008 11:23:30 PM PDT
by
Bellflower
(A Brand New Day Is Coming!)
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