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The science world is freaking out over this 25-year-old’s answer to antibiotic resistance
A 25-year-old student has just come up with a way to fight drug-resistant superbugs without antibiotics.
The new approach has so far only been tested in the lab and on mice, but it could offer a potential solution to antibiotic resistance, which is now getting so bad that the United Nations recently declared it a “fundamental threat” to global health.
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria already kill around 700,000 people each year, but a recent study suggests that number could rise to around 10 million by 2050.
In addition to common hospital superbug, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), scientists are now also concerned that gonorrhoea is about tobecome resistant to all remaining drugs.
But Shu Lam, a 25-year-old PhD student at the University of Melbourne in Australia, has developed a star-shaped polymer that can kill six different superbug strains without antibiotics, simply by ripping apart their cell walls.
“We’ve discovered that [the polymers] actually target the bacteria and kill it in multiple ways,” Lam told Nicola Smith from The Telegraph. “One method is by physically disrupting or breaking apart the cell wall of the bacteria. This creates a lot of stress on the bacteria and causes it to start killing itself.”
The research has been published in Nature Microbiology, and according to Smith, it’s already being hailed by scientists in the field as “a breakthrough that could change the face of modern medicine”.
Before we get too carried away, it’s still very early days. So far, Lam has only tested her star-shaped polymers on six strains of drug-resistant bacteria in the lab, and on one superbug in live mice.
But in all experiments, they’ve been able to kill their targeted bacteria – and generation after generation don’t seem to develop resistance to the polymers.
Her name is Shu Lam and her name belongs in the title. Give women of color their proper recognition for their constant world-saving knowledges and actions.
You can read more about her research (which published in November yaaay!) here.
FIVE PARAGRAHS (although short) before her fucking name was mentioned.
The science world is freaking out over this 25-year-old’s answer to antibiotic resistance
His lawyer: “Von Keyserling playfully gave a lady who he knew for 30 years a pinch is what the accusation is,” Russell says. “And somehow, everybody’s wringing their hands and carrying on that this is a crime, and it just isn’t.”
Following the incident, von Keyserling allegedly told the woman that “it would be your word against mine and nobody will believe you.” Unfortunately for him, police said that video footage from a nearby surveillance camera is consistent with the woman’s charges.
Christopher von Keyserling was charged with fourth-degree sexual assault.
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Because abortions aren’t the only way the patriarchy wants to control your junk
OBGYN: Yeah, you are exhibiting all the signs of Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome. I’m so sorry.
Me: Huh? Oh, yeah. Insulin resistance, impossible weight loss, pre-disposition to type II diabetes, painful AF periods. Likelihood of bleed outs. Crap. That blows.
OBGYN: Yeah, well that too.
Me: *blinks* What?
OBGYN: Well, PCOS makes it very difficult for a woman to conceive and carry.
Me: BWHAHAHAHA. Yeah. No. No babies. Ever. Never wanted them. At all. Maternal instinct is not strong with this one. Only upside today.
OBGYN: Well then. Not exactly problem solved, but we’ll run with it.
Me: So about the MIND-SEARING PAIN and occasional HEAVY AF BLEEDING. When can we deal with that.
OBGYN: Not until you are 35.
Me: Dah fuq?
OBGYN: Not my rules. Hospitalization won’t even consider any treatment unless it’s life or death until you’re 35.
Me: Why?
OBGYN: Because you might want to have a baby.
Me: I’m 31. I didn’t want kids when I was 11, I didn’t want them at 21, and I sure as shit don’t want them now. Can’t I just sign a form that says “I don’t ever want a baby take it out, take it out now”?
OBGYN: Nope.
Me: Why?
OBGYN: Government rules. No removal of baby making parts before 35 unless your life is in immediate jeopardy.
TL;DR: The government knows better about your baby making parts than you do.
The Coffeyville Weekly Journal, Kansas, December 8, 1899
This was 100% a callout posting about male authors.
DRAG THEM NEIL
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i have a friend who has been taking birth control since she was 12 because she’s anemic and if she didn’t take it she would bleed out excessively during her period and end up in the hospital
dont fucking tell me that birth control isn’t crucial to people
and I have a friend who wants to have sex but doesn’t want a baby.
don’t fucking tell me that birth control isn’t crucial to people.
i take birth control because it makes me not have periods and it makes me feel less dysphoric because im transgender
don’t fucking tell me that birth control isn’t crucial to people.
i take birth control because i have endometriosis and will pass out due to the extreme pain from cramps. i’ve ended up in the hospital from it.
don’t fucking tell me that birth control isn’t crucial to people.
my cousin takes birth control because it helps with her ovaries and reduces the cysts so she doesn’t have to get another surgery.
don’t fucking tell me that birth control isn’t crucial to people.
I don’t take birth control. I don’t currently need it in my life. But lots of other people do for various reasons and those are none of my business, it is between them and their doctor.
don’t fucking tell me or them that birth control isn’t crucial to people.
I use birth control because I get ovarian cysts so painful that when they burst I wind up in the hospital, taking up space in the emergency room because of an issue easily managed with the correct form of birth control.
If you don’t think that birth control is crucial to people you are an absolute douche.
I take birth control since I was 11 because I too have a blood disorder and if I didn’t I’d bleed out excessively and end up in the hospital.
I’ve taken birth control since I was 17 because 1) it was recommended by a dermatologist to treat my hormonal acne, which it did and I’ve barely had breakouts for the past 7 years and 2) my periods were 7-8 days of heavy bleeding from hell before I started the pill and got it regulated down to 4 days of mild bleeding
“When I started my musical career, I was a maid,” she told the audience. “I used to clean houses. My parents, my mother was a proud janitor. My stepfather, who raised me like his very own, worked at the post office and my father was a trash man — they all wore uniforms. And that’s why I stand here today in my black and white and I wear my uniform to honor them.”
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