• Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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    19 hours ago

    the gene NDM is new dheli metallo-beta lactamase, its designed to neutralized carbapenem based drugs,(which are usually the drugs that have been hailed as "resistance to antibiotic resistance bacteria) because the molecule was supposedly resistant to the enzymes that e coli, and klebisella produce that neutralizeantibiotics, but they evolved a way to even deal with this.

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      10 hours ago

      This is unfortunately just the reality when we’re dealing with organisms with orders of magnitude faster reproduction and selection than us. Maybe the proposed bacteriophage treatments will be better since those can evolve too, but we’ll probably still have to constantly engineer them otherwise we’ll get periods when bacteriophages work and periods when it doesn’t, not to mention the extremely slim but never actually zero chance that bacteriophages will figure out how to infect eukaryotic cells from the billions of close contact with animal tissue when we actually start using them as mainstream medicine.

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      12 hours ago

      Evolution is a tricky bitch when bacteria have a new generation every 15 minutes or so

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    1 day ago

    The US government still have scientists left? No problem, I’m sure RFK Jr. will fix that momentarily.

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      6 hours ago

      Strong dose of prayer and a good session of getting mad at things (basically everything) they don’t understand.

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        17 hours ago

        I was taking an ATLA angle but sure. I can work with this.

        The bleach helped but the ivermectin, wow. That was the stuff.

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      10 hours ago

      You’d be surprised what bacteria are capable of. Sure they may not spread as easily through the air like coronaviruses but even spreading through surface contact can get out of control really fast in an urban area when millions of people touch the same surfaces every day and then touch their eyes/mouth.

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        6 hours ago

        This reminds me of the time I was at Disney land and remember watching a kid in one of those really long lines that wind back and forth… the kid was just standing there rocking back and forth as their parents were distracted and talking. The kid was there straight up licking the pole and dragging their tongue back and forth over like a 1 foot section… needless to say I was mortified.