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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2018-10-26 12:00 pm
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[personal profile] skington 2018-10-26 01:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Got a non-paywalled version of the Sydney Opera House article?
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[personal profile] skington 2018-10-26 02:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks!
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[personal profile] skington 2018-10-26 02:40 pm (UTC)(link)
What's odd about the Jeremy Corbyn press coverage report is that the Times and the FT aren't on the list of newspapers they studied.
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[personal profile] calimac 2018-10-26 02:48 pm (UTC)(link)
At first I read the medical headline as meaning "Antibiotic 'Trojan horse' could defeat superbugs, causing global medical crisis."

And, sure enough, inside the article it explains how they work: "The drug binds on to iron and is fast tracked past its defences into the heart of the cell."

So what we have here is a powerful mechanism to select for any mutation - and bacteria mutate like crazy - that will raise defenses against pulling the drug into the heart of the cell, and the next generation of even more super superbugs will be born.
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[personal profile] doug 2018-10-27 09:15 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, this. From what I've gleaned there's nothing to stop bacteria evolving resistance. We need more classes of antibiotics, sure, but more than that we need a better regime for using them to reduce resistance, and we are not making much progress there and I'm not hopeful.