[Texas Fossil]

Now this is good news. A booster compound increasing the effectiveness of older antibiotics.

This is a force multiplier.

[Texas Fossil]

Here is the original source on Science Daily.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120213154106.htm

[JimSEA]

As Joe Biden would say, “This is a big fn deal”. Except in this case it’s true.

[Glenn]

Gives a new definition to the phrase, "Drug Rehab".

[musicman]

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[U-238]

This technolohy has its negative side.The biotechnology exists today for some of these possibilities:

1.Binary Bioweapons
2.Designer Genes
3.Gene Therapy
4.Stealth Viruses
5.Host Swapping Diseases
6.Designer Diseases

[Sherman Logan]

Mankind is locked in a war between our ability to design and produce new antibiotics and the ability of bacteria to evolve resistance to them.

In the long run, bet on the bugs.