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Awesome Science Beats Superbugs With RIP AND TEAR
Harrier
The Star Spangled ManRegistered User regular
The Star Spangled ManRegistered User regular
Science is cool, guys! Medical science especially so, since no one likes people dying horribly and being in pain. Or they shouldn't.
Researchers at Nanyang Technology University have developed a polymer coating that kills bacteria and fungi with particular efficacy. How does it work?
Seriously.
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Researchers at Nanyang Technology University have developed a polymer coating that kills bacteria and fungi with particular efficacy. How does it work?
Seriously.
This "sponge-like" polymer holds a positive charge, which acts as a magnet-type of force to draw in bacteria which has a negative charge on their cell walls. When the bacterium comes in contact with the coating, the cell walls are 'sucked' into the nanopores, causing the cell to rupture, thus killing the bacterium.
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I don't wanna kill anybody. I don't like bullies. I don't care where they're from.
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Put that shit on everything.
Hip hip
never understood it
more bacteria you kill, more likely some superbacteria's gonna feast on our weakened immune systems and turn our insides to shit
cross contamination's not a good thing
We need better education
Not if you wipe out the entire lot before they can adapt. The problem is when you get a partial kill. Like Machiavelli says, "If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared."
Which is why anti-vaccers are such a problem.
Why I fear the ocean.
Yeah I meant everything hospital related, as I am a nursing student. I didn't mean start making door knobs in your house out of that shit.
Having antibiotic catheters and needles would be a pretty huge thing.
Implants and surgical tools would be great too.
It's amazing how the funding for this sort of thing was only $800k. Like, that's less than a house in california.
T.v. ads for household cleaning products are terrible. These people and their kids are supposedly living in hermetically clean houses, as if that is the ideal we should all work toward.
No you dicks, a bit of dirt is good for the kiddies. Kick 'em out in the backyard and tell them to make mud pies.
THE ONLY THING THAT IS LEFT IS THE STUFF THAT WILL KILL YOU
GOOD LUCK FUCKASS
soooo...always?
I would watch this TV series
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More or less, admittedly.
Especially with anything commercially available.
That is the fun of anti-bacterial soap and the like. Or the irony. I get them confused.
Why I fear the ocean.
Fossilized diatoms shredding earwig foot soldiers. Stomach dissolving enzymes. Fight the good fight!
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Probably cheaper to just dig some sewers
Fuckin' prokaryotes.
http://secure.seedstrust.com/
I mean I know corn barely is food but still
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I mumbled some things about the immune system then just gave up and went inside
Don't be ridiculous
put it on things that absolutely need to be clean all the time
but, yeah, Walrus has got the right idea here.
I would eat the shit out of that corn.
Hook it up.
Coffee contains more than 1,000 compounds besides caffeine that might be important to health. (Adeel Halim/Reuters)
Compared with men who did not drink coffee, those who drank six or more cups a day had a 10 per cent lower risk of death,"
I love it when science tells me my addiction is good for me. Or at the very least not bad for me.
studies like this really bug me
because they get so much media attention and they're almost meaningless because in a sample size that large and with parameters as radical as "six or more cups a day" verses "don't drink coffee", controlling the variables would be next to impossible.
Also how many of the 402,000 people drink six cups a day? that seems like a lot of coffee. They don't provide the results for people who drink 2 cups a day? or 4? The story doesn't even link to the original paper so the reader can't get the actual numbers.
Science reporting.
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
it affects people sometimes in unexpected ways and downplaying its effect isn't a good idea
It's really common, for example for people who drink a lot of coffee during their work week and not so much on the weekends to get withdrawal symptoms and not realize that's what it is.
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
Gonna go have my one-a-day. =P