General / Off-Topic End of the hospital superbug?

[Cosmos]

A virus that can kill bacteria super bugs.. nature is full of surprises.

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...ll-the-end-for-hospital-superbug-8884846.html

 

[Sparticus]

Let's hope it is a success.

 

[Kerrash]

Until it evolves again

 

[Sparticus]

Until it evolves again

Well It is Natures way

 

[insanephoton]

Phages are nothing new, I vaguely remember a Horizon program about them several years ago. It seems that everyone apart from the Russians forgot about them when antibiotics were first developed.

As for the evolution thing, it works both ways. If the target evolves resistance eventually a phage will evolve to counter that. Evolving a new phage would still be much quicker than developing an entirely new class of antibiotics.

 

[DrBaggy]

Phages are nothing new, I vaguely remember a Horizon program about them several years ago. It seems that everyone apart from the Russians forgot about them when antibiotics were first developed.

As for the evolution thing, it works both ways. If the target evolves resistance eventually a phage will evolve to counter that. Evolving a new phage would still be much quicker than developing an entirely new class of antibiotics.

And of course in another universe....

http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Phage

 

[Kerrash]

Screw all that, where are my nanobots?
Whilst you are at it, they've only got 2 more years to get me my hoverboard

 

[insanephoton]

Screw all that, where are my nanobots?
Whilst you are at it, they've only got 2 more years to get me my hoverboard

We're still waiting for the colonies on Mars and holidays on the Moon along with robot servants, flying cars, personal jetpacks and commercial fusion power generation.