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Way to go @baym on the 60 minutes piece! We watched it in lab meeting today & were collectively yelling at the screen for the journalist not to touch your big slab of mutant E. coli bare handed 😱
Could antibiotic-resistant "superbugs" become a bigger killer than cancer?
Antibiotics have saved hundreds of millions of lives. But their continued, widespread use has led to mutated bacteria that are resistant to these drug...
www.cbsnews.com
Just one more reason we should never underestimate the power of plants...or our forebears, who figured this stuff out centuries ago.
16th-century text shows ginkgo seeds can fight skin infections
Inspired by a centuries-old text on traditional Chinese medicine, a young researcher has found that seeds from the gingko tree could prove helpful for...
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Woo! I'm excited to share our new paper on #Australia spiny #Solanum fruit and seed dispersal character evolution across the Monsoon Tropics! SOLANUMS KNOW HOW TO GET AROUND! 🍆🍅 #Botany @MartineBotany @IThaden @FrawleyEmma @dave_tank
Phylogeny of the Australian Solanum dioicum group using seven nuclear genes, with consideration of Symon’s fruit and seed dispersal hypotheses
The dioecious and andromonoecious Solanum taxa (the “S. dioicum group”) of the Australian Monsoon Tropics have been the subject of phylogenetic an...
journals.plos.org
Frustrated by pharma not tackling #superbugs, Lord Jim O'Neill proposes a very controversial solution to #AMR research. Says maybe govts should take it over. Pharma fights back saying invested 4x more than govt/fdns in 2016. @BBCNews #AntibioticResistance
'Take over pharma' to make new antibiotics
Bits of the industry could be taken over as no new drugs are being made, says Lord Jim O'Neill.
www.bbc.com
Job opportunities in the history of herbal medicine in London, at The Old Operating Theatre Museum & Herb Garret, a medical museum located in the attic of an eighteenth-century Church
The Old Operating Theatre Museum | The Old Operating Theatre Museum
Welcome to the Old Operating Theatre Museum and Herb Garret in London. Discover Europe’s oldest surviving operating theatre.
www.oldoperatingtheatre.com
![Ecuador 1802: Humboldt & Bonpland were hosted by the Marquis of Selva Alegre and stayed at his ‘beautiful Chillo home’. From this valley is Geranium chilloense. This we collected at Machachi (Pugyopamba). [📷C.Aedo] #Humboldt250](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D4eEiiPW0AEw6FG.jpg)
