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RE: Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria Might Just Be Defeated By The Blood Of Komodo Dragons
Fantastic post! I wonder how long it will take to turn these peptides into usable drugs? There are various fast track initiatives so hopefully it will be quicker than the usual 10 years or so it takes.
There is nothing wrong with more than one post on the same topic! Not everyone is going to see mine, and educating people on the need for new antibiotics I think is extremely important.
I did my best now that all people who follow me will read it as well: resteemed! ;-)
Thank you :D I appreciate your kindness @jaki01.
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Thats a good question, they are short peptides so they would be easy to synthesize, no need for cells, so they could be made in massive quantities with relatively good purity quite simply. The only question I have about them is their doses which seem a bit large to achieve good killing of the bacteria. Then again, if you have an antibiotic resistant bacterial infection and you are looking at death's door...
I personally think more research is necessary to better understand the mechanism of action for these peptides prior to thinking about making them into usable drugs, but honestly those sorts of studies don't take all that long to do and do well if people put their minds (and financial backing) to getting it done.
Yes more research is always needed. I suppose the concern would be if there are any risk or side effects due to the large doses but like you said if you are dying anyway it doesn't matter so much!
i believe it will depend on the corporations again, if you check out there are videos that researchers found out ways to defeat some forms of cancern and other diseases from the venom of snake or even by adding older ''lethal'' deseases into people with this kind of problems and even though they had very good results they were saying there is no funding and help from anyone, so bottom line is if even if you do a lot of research you need a couple of things more
Yes true. That is one of the reasons why we have a lack of antibiotics in the first place. It is not considered as commercially viable as other types of drugs due to the way they work and the guaranteed fact that resistance will occur.
lets just hope and try to build a better place and even though we had a huge development over the years in the medical world and general in our health , i hate to see that we could be a lot better but greed for money once again greets us
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