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Promising new form of antibiotic that makes bacterial cells self-destruct (phys.org)
22 points by WaitWaitWha 53 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 7 comments



> For this project, the tricky thing was trying to find a way to hit the bacterial ClpP, but not the human ClpP," Houry adds.

Yikes, sounds like it would be a most horrific poison.


The problem with developing new antibiotics is that pharma wants to sell them at a high price to recover research costs. But older antibiotics are out of patent an are dirt cheap. So the new antibiotics only make sense in the limited cases where no old antibiotic works. So pharma finds itself selling into a small market that is hard to sell to, because antibiotic resistance is unpredictable. That's why there's a perennial problem of no new antibiotics. The problem isn't the science, it's the economic system of our system of medicine.


Hopefully some kind of government support should be possible?


What if they develop resistances against this?


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https://archive.is/26L3r

How's about this one? Any better?


Worked for me.


I didn't see any of that. Using Kiwi browser on Android with ublock origin. Not to excuse a site's shitty design but it is possible to avoid these annoyances.

Well, on Android or desktop at least. Are people on Iphones forced to view ads?




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