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Seems too good to be true
by ythn 9y ago
Seems too good to be true
- warent 9y agoFortunately in the late 19th century so did the prospect of Moon exploration and arrogated human knowledge in our pockets. But it's pretty standard now
- omarchowdhury 9y agoMoon exploration isn't standard, but I get your point.
- warent 9y agoAggregated* not arrogated.
- pm90 9y agoTo be fair, they probably said the same about penicillin when it was discovered.
- quux 9y agoAnd in a way penicillin is too good to be true, now that bacteria are widely resistant to it and many other antibiotics.
- omarchowdhury 9y agoDoesn't erase the benefit it has had up to this point.
- eliben 9y agoPenicillin probably saved at least tens of millions of lives, and other antibiotics even more. Yes, some strains of bacteria are developing resistance, but even today antibiotics are saving many many lives every day.
- a_imho 9y agoCan we crispr resistant bacteria to be susceptible to penicillin/antibiotics again?
- ccozan 9y agoInteresting idea. So you would first infect voluntarily with a custom virus that targets the bacteria by using CRISPR to remove the DNA strand of the resistance, then simply use the usual antibiotics to kill it.
- mathw 9y agoAt that point couldn't you just make a custom virus which kills the bacteria, so it happens in one step?
- erklik 9y agoThe millions saved haven't been eroded if some bacteria now are developing resistance.