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A very interesting article was published in the online-free-access of PLoS (Public Library of Science).

Read it here:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0000365

It’s a big one, so let me sum it up for you. E. Coli apparently were tested and multi-drug-resistance was confirmed through the organism developing an exclusion technique — these bacterium learn to exclude drugs, or push them out of the cell, prior to the drug finding its target. The scary take-home from this is that, again, antibiotics are not the answer. At least, they’re not the only answer.

One should consider investing into science of cellular mechanics and development. By one here I mean you, me, and the president. It is important to understand what’s going on biochemically AND it is important to investigate other techniques of inactivating these cells. Yes, I keep things like electric plasma and the like in the back of my head when reading these articles.

You know, I was at a nail salon a little while ago [yes, I do get my nails done every once-in-a-while] . They had this “towel disinfection” box. It’s a UV lamp, building up concentration of reactive oxygen species and over long periods of time actually having bactericidal effect. However, all the articles I read on this called for over 600 seconds, or 10 minutes, of DIRECT exposure of bacteria to the UV light source. Here the bacteria are on a towel, in a stack of towels, crammed into a small box with a weak UV lamp… Hmm… you’re gonna get far with that, I’m sure. What’s best is that, of course, the towels were placed in the box and removed from it every 2-3 minutes or so. For sure, no sterilization there… only enough UV to perhaps slice-up a few DNA links, increasing the probability of bacteria to mutate… YAY! Go get your nails done and get exposed to deadly mutated bacteria

Where was I? Oh, yeah, read that article, and perhaps a small reference to it published on Medical News Today website.

So, when do you think are we all going to die from some super-bug resistant to everything? Or you think science will come up with a magic cure-it-all?