{"id":902,"date":"2016-10-17T12:41:17","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T16:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/?p=902"},"modified":"2016-10-16T15:47:54","modified_gmt":"2016-10-16T19:47:54","slug":"good-news-everybody-looks-like-we-wont-all-have-to-die-from-mrsa-and-c-diff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2016\/10\/good-news-everybody-looks-like-we-wont-all-have-to-die-from-mrsa-and-c-diff\/","title":{"rendered":"Good News, Everybody! Looks like we won’t all have to die from MRSA and C diff"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2026I mean, yes, we’ll all still be swept away by the ruinstorms<\/a> powered by our collapsing climate\u2014but that’s a helluva lot less agonizing then succumbing to c diff or a septic staph infection.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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A human white blood cell\u00a0battling MRSA (source<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

All that aside, the science here is really cool: instead of a new traditional antibiotic (which is basically the equivalent of bug spray), this 25yo (!!!) researcher has designed and grown little nano-caltrops that tear apart the cell walls\u2014and, just as hundreds of generations of deer have failed to grow immune to bullets, it likewise appears that bacteria cannot grow immune to these targeted lil anti-pathogenic death spikes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Rather than poisoning the bad bacteria like antibiotics do, the molecules, called peptide polymers, destroy the bacteria’s cell walls. And unlike antibiotics, which also poison surrounding healthy cells, the polymers “are quite non-toxic to the healthy cells in the body,” Lam says. That’s because they’re much too big (about 10 nanometers in diameter) to enter healthy cells\u2014”the difference in scale between a mouse and an elephant,” Lam’s supervisor told the\u00a0Sydney Morning Herald<\/i><\/span><\/a>. What’s more, in Lam’s experiments, generation after generation of bacteria don’t seem to become resistant to the polymers.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Read more: This 25-Year-Old May Have Saved You From Super-Gonorrhea<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u2026I mean, yes, we’ll all still be swept away by the ruinstorms powered by our collapsing climate\u2014but that’s a helluva lot less agonizing then succumbing to c diff or a septic staph infection.\u00a0 All that aside, the science here is really cool: instead of a new traditional antibiotic (which is basically the equivalent of bug … Continue reading “Good News, Everybody! Looks like we won’t all have to die from MRSA and C diff”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[11],"tags":[36,41,43,31],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=902"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":906,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902\/revisions\/906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}