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Awesome Science Beats Superbugs With RIP AND TEAR

HarrierHarrier The Star Spangled ManRegistered User regular
edited May 2012 in Social Entropy++
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?
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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.

We didn't have a Science Thread running, so let's get started.

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  • TheStigTheStig Registered User regular
    That's some good stuff.

    Put that shit on everything.

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  • PharezonPharezon Struggle is an illusion. Victory is in the Qun.Registered User regular
    Picture broken.

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  • TamTam Registered User regular
    Yay for one of the most fruitful enterprises of humanity
    Hip hip

  • Kuribo's ShoeKuribo's Shoe Kuribo's Stocking North PoleRegistered User regular
    people obsessed with killing bacteria

    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

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  • HarrierHarrier The Star Spangled Man Registered User regular
    Pharezon wrote: »
    Picture broken.
    Once again TVTropes is worse than useless.

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  • Kuribo's ShoeKuribo's Shoe Kuribo's Stocking North PoleRegistered User regular
    good for hospitals and shit though

    cross contamination's not a good thing

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  • VALVEjunkieVALVEjunkie Registered User regular
    that's amazing! now put it on remotes and doorknobs and faucets and and and

  • TamTam Registered User regular
    Yeah bacteria are mostly good
    We need better education

  • chiasaur11chiasaur11 Never doubt a raccoon. Do you think it's trademarked?Registered User regular
    people obsessed with killing bacteria

    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

    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.

  • TheStigTheStig Registered User regular
    edited May 2012
    good for hospitals and shit though

    cross contamination's not a good thing

    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.

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  • Donovan PuppyfuckerDonovan Puppyfucker A dagger in the dark is worth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered User regular
    people obsessed with killing bacteria

    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

    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.

  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    KILLS NINETY NINE POINT NINE PERCENT OF ALL BACTERIA

    THE ONLY THING THAT IS LEFT IS THE STUFF THAT WILL KILL YOU

    GOOD LUCK FUCKASS

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  • TheStigTheStig Registered User regular
    edited May 2012
    Now my shower is host to only the toughest most bad-ass bacteria who after watching me murder their family want revenge.

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  • YoSoyTheWalrusYoSoyTheWalrus Registered User regular
    chiasaur11 wrote: »
    people obsessed with killing bacteria

    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

    Not if you wipe out the entire lot before they can adapt. The problem is when you get a partial kill.

    soooo...always?

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  • DarmakDarmak RAGE vympyvvhyc vyctyvyRegistered User regular
    TheStig wrote: »
    Now my shower is host to only the toughest most bad-ass bacteria who after watching me murder their family want revenge.

    I would watch this TV series

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  • JacobyJacoby OHHHHH IT’S A SNAKE Creature - SnakeRegistered User regular
    Or how about water treatment? Get that thing cheap enough, and Africa gets to not have to choose between dying of thirst or dying of water-borne diseases.

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  • chiasaur11chiasaur11 Never doubt a raccoon. Do you think it's trademarked?Registered User regular
    chiasaur11 wrote: »
    people obsessed with killing bacteria

    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

    Not if you wipe out the entire lot before they can adapt. The problem is when you get a partial kill.

    soooo...always?

    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.

  • MetroidZoidMetroidZoid Registered User regular
    One of the fun things about a lot of organic gardening is that you're basically waging microscopic biological warfare.

    Fossilized diatoms shredding earwig foot soldiers. Stomach dissolving enzymes. Fight the good fight!

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  • -SPI--SPI- Osaka, JapanRegistered User regular
    KILLS NINETY NINE POINT NINE PERCENT OF ALL BACTERIA

    THE ONLY THING THAT IS LEFT IS THE STUFF THAT WILL KILL YOU

    GOOD LUCK FUCKASS
    Not so much an antiseptic as a selection pressure.

  • YoSoyTheWalrusYoSoyTheWalrus Registered User regular
    Jacoby wrote: »
    Or how about water treatment? Get that thing cheap enough, and Africa gets to not have to choose between dying of thirst or dying of water-borne diseases.

    Probably cheaper to just dig some sewers

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  • The GeekThe Geek Oh-Two Crew, Omeganaut Registered User, ClubPA regular
  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    edited May 2012
    Kill all the chump bacteria so we can start adapting to the superchumps.

    Fuckin' prokaryotes.

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  • BYToadyBYToady Registered User regular
    I never clean my bathroom or kitchen to help my immune system work out to take on the inevitable super bugs that'll sweep the nation.

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  • EndEnd Registered User regular
    it turns out that the nation sweeping superbugs originated from BYToday's bathroom

    I wish that someway, somehow, that I could save every one of us
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  • Indie WinterIndie Winter die Krähe Rudi Hurzlmeier (German, b. 1952)Registered User regular
    guys what about corn that looks like glass

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    http://secure.seedstrust.com/

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  • Kuribo's ShoeKuribo's Shoe Kuribo's Stocking North PoleRegistered User regular
    that doesn't look like food

    I mean I know corn barely is food but still

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  • Indie WinterIndie Winter die Krähe Rudi Hurzlmeier (German, b. 1952)Registered User regular
    it's apparently completely edible and quite tasty. you can even make popcorn out of it, though the popped kernels aren't colorful.

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  • MetroidZoidMetroidZoid Registered User regular
    Imagine seeing THOSE kernals in the shitter

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  • ChicoBlueChicoBlue Registered User regular
    Eat that corn and do your dookie in front of some raccoons.

  • YoSoyTheWalrusYoSoyTheWalrus Registered User regular
    My sister freaked out on me for letting my nephew play in the dirt and started slathering him in purell

    I mumbled some things about the immune system then just gave up and went inside

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  • sarukunsarukun RIESLING OCEANRegistered User regular
    TheStig wrote: »
    That's some good stuff.

    Put that shit on everything.

    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.

  • sarukunsarukun RIESLING OCEANRegistered User regular
    guys what about corn that looks like glass

    original.png

    http://secure.seedstrust.com/

    I would eat the shit out of that corn.

    Hook it up.

  • UnbrokenEvaUnbrokenEva HIGH ON THE WIRE BUT I WON'T TRIP ITRegistered User regular
    "In a study of more than 402,000 men and women aged 50 to 71 in the U.S., researchers looked at the association between coffee consumption and mortality.

    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.

  • #pipe#pipe Cocky Stride, Musky odours Pope of Chili TownRegistered User regular
    Fearghaill wrote: »
    "In a study of more than 402,000 men and women aged 50 to 71 in the U.S., researchers looked at the association between coffee consumption and mortality.

    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.

  • HarrierHarrier The Star Spangled Man Registered User regular
    I have stopped paying attention to studies on caffeine. They shit out such wildly contradictory results that I can't take any of them seriously.

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  • #pipe#pipe Cocky Stride, Musky odours Pope of Chili TownRegistered User regular
    The bottom line is that Caffiene is a drug

    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.

  • sarukunsarukun RIESLING OCEANRegistered User regular
    Fortunately the science on alcohol is far more conclusive.

    Gonna go have my one-a-day. =P

  • LuvTheMonkeyLuvTheMonkey High Sierra Serenade Registered User regular
    Sarukun you are an idea man. I like this idea.

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