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To: blam
A supposedly miracle cure ... "could one day be used..."

In't that always the story with these kinds of discoveries?

2 posted on 01/07/2015 9:14:28 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Windflier

Sounds kind of like the discovery of sulfa drugs, it may or may not pan out but one must keep looking to find the next good tool to fight various types of infection.


3 posted on 01/07/2015 9:17:33 PM PST by Bidimus1
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You can volunteer to be part of the human trial now I suppose.

Personally I prefer to wait until they have finished testing.

5 posted on 01/07/2015 9:25:13 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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It only works against Gram positive bacteria. And we have no idea what it does to people. All we know is that Teixobactin is effective in killing gram-positive superbugs and that so far it isn’t toxic to mice. We don’t know if it carcinogenic to them. In fact, we don’t know if it causes long term damage to mice not noticeable yet. We have no idea what it does to primates and people. I don’t even know if they have tested Teixobactin in a human blood culture yet.


7 posted on 01/07/2015 10:05:32 PM PST by rmlew ("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
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