isracast.com — In research conducted at the Hebrew University, a method for controlling bacterial activity without antibiotics was developed. The research showed how it is possible to interfere with the communication of groups of bacteria thus enabling new ways of fighting bacterial infections as well as ways to help beneficial bacteria to multiply.
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sfacetsNov 10, 2005
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littleoniNov 10, 2005
This, along with gene therapy looks to be the direction we're going to have to go before long. Too bad most of the big pharmaceutical corporations will try to exploit the poor/middle class for it when that time comes, especially here in the US. Interesting read, nonetheless.
akiriwasNov 10, 2005
WorldBuilder:You're comparing apples and oranges. Viruses are never treated by antibiotics, that doesn't even make sense. All we can do against viruses is inocculate, which is actually the exact same as just suffering through it. The problem is in bacterial infections, perhaps your body can fight it off, perhaps not. Bacteria work very differently than viruses and until antibiotics many people died of bacterial infections. I'm all for an alternative to antibiotics, but just "suffering through it" is not always an option with a bacterial infection, it simply won't work.
andrewjNov 10, 2005
Sorry wrong thread.
a99tandemNov 10, 2005
Well..... if it fights bacteria-- doesn't that make it ANTI-biotic?Just MHO
sciencechickNov 10, 2005
Great comment, a99tandem. If it disrupts the function of bacteria it is an antibiotic... It is a synthesized compound that, with overuse will lead to resistance. All antibiotics researched and submitted to the FDA must have resistance studies done on them.
jnorris441Nov 10, 2005
"A young doctoral student"WTF 32 is not young