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A century-old discovery of a virus could become our solution to antibiotic resistance 

Antibiotic resistance - the phenomenon in which bacteria stop responding to certain antibiotics - is a growing threat around the world.

It’s expected to kill 10 million people annually by 2050.

And it hasn’t been easy to develop new drugs in order to stay ahead of the problem. Many major pharmaceutical companies have stopped developing new antibiotics, and the drugs that are still in development have faced numerous stumbling blocks toward approval.

So some drugmakers are starting to turn to other solutions, including one that’s actually had a fairly long history: phage therapy.

The treatments are made of bacteria-killing viruses called bacteriophages, or phages for short. Discovered in the early 1900s, bacteriophages have the potential to treat people with bacterial infections.

They’re commonly used in parts of eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union as another way to treat infections that could otherwise be treated by antibiotics. Because they are programmed to fight bacteria, phages don’t pose much of a threat to human safety on a larger scale.

“There’s huge potential there that regular antibiotics don’t have,” NYT columnist Carl Zimmer told Business Insider in 2015. “I think what we’d actually have to work on is how we approve medical treatments to make room for viruses that kill bacteria.”

Thank you USA GOVERNMENT

HE. IS. A MONSTER

what men call “logic” is really just a lack of empathy

why does everyone make those relateable posts about depression meals and list stuff like, half a potato chip and forgetting eat but no one ever talks about the other half of people who overeat from depression? no one talks about gouging yourself with food the second you feel bad because somehow youre convinced food will make you feel better but it doesnt so you keep eating until it does? the weight gain? feeling sick from eating so much? eating an entire bag of chips and a whole carton of ice cream in one sitting without knowing it?? feeling even worse because youre making yourself so ill???

why does no one remember this symptom?

me when grown men make anything involving teenage girls:

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Dog does not understand

2017 Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards Finalists (see 7 more)

Imagine hating homeless people so much u find ways to make their lives shittier instead of providing them with the resources they need

Lena Dunham: “I’m the Zodiac!”

Threat neutralized.

96 line were actually born in 2012

i’m speechless

This is how the system of white supremacy  operates. The media is used 2 create stereotypes like blk on blk crime.They need black men to fill jail cells for the Prison Indstrial complex

You know what? I’m tired of this. I do not know what exactly they are waiting for. I mean our government comes up with “reasons” to invade other countries, such as Syria, like their government is allegedly violating human rights or something like that. but… I mean for other countries, they do not even have to go deep to bomb the fuck out of this place, they can just look at our media. And this has been happening to people of color since the media has existed.

I’ll never forget this 👇🏾

Gillian Oliver (b. 1943) is an expert in cancer nursing and palliative care. Throughout her career as a cancer nurse, she developed a number of vital services, policies and strategies implemented in her home country of UK and beyond.

She began training at Middlesex Hospital, and has served as UK Director of Service Development for Macmillan Cancer Relief. She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing, and has been made a Dame of the British Empire for her services.

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Suicide Hotline: 1-800-784-8433

LifeLine: 1-800-273-8255

Trevor Project: 1-866-488-7386

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Eating Disorders Hotline: 1-847-831-3438

Rape and Sexual Assault: 1-800-656-4673

Grief Support: 1-650-321-5272

Runaway: 1-800-843-5200, 1-800-843-5678, 1-800-621-4000

Exhale: After Abortion Hotline/Pro-Voice: 1-866-4394253

Child Abuse: 1-800-422-4453

UK Helplines:

Samaritans (for any problem): 08457909090 e-mail jo@samaritans.org

Childline (for anyone under 18 with any problem): 08001111

Mind infoline (mental health information): 0300 123 3393 e-mail: info@mind.org.uk

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Cruse Bereavement Care: 08444779400 e-mail: helpline@cruse.org.uk

Frank (information and advice on drugs): 0800776600

Drinkline: 0800 9178282

Rape Crisis England & Wales: 0808 802 9999 1(open 2 - 2.30pm 7 - 9.30pm) e-mail info@rapecrisis.org.uk

Rape Crisis Scotland: 08088 01 03 02 every day, 6pm to midnight

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To be fair 🤔, you have to have a very ❗❗ high IQ 😏  to understand 📚 the taste of McDonald’s Szechuan Dipping Sauce 👌😩  .The taste 👄👅  is extremely subtle 😳 , and without a solid grasp of theoretical physics 📖📘  and culinary mastery 🍴🍽  most of the flavors 😜 will go over a typical eater’s head 🙄 . There’s also the sauce’s nihilistic 🚫🖤  outlook, which is deftly woven 😲 ❓  into the flavors - which draws heavily from ancient 🙊 Korean Dishes, for instance. The fans understand 😏 this stuff; they have the intellectual 😏😏😏 capacity to truly appreciate the depths  💻🔮  of these dipping sauces 😛💦, to realize that they’re not just delicious  👅💯 - they say something deep about LIFE 🤔⌛. As a consequence people who dislike 👎 the Rick and Morty dipping sauce truly ARE idiots 😖 - of course they wouldn’t appreciate 😶, for instance, the taste in Rick’s existencial fascination 👀👃 with the sauce 🙀, and his catchphrase 💬 when consuming said sauce, “Wubba Lubba Dub Dub,” 😢💔      which itself is a cryptic reference to Turgenev’s Russian 🇷🇺 epic Fathers and Sons 📔. I’m smirking 😏 right now just imagining 🗯 one of those addlepated simpletons 😒 scratching their heads 😔 in confusion 🙁 as McDonald’s Kitchen Chef’s geniuses 🤔😏 unfolds itself on their food tray 🍽 and taste glands 👄 🥂. What fools…  😏 how I pity them.

They all look like white males

Muslim women across the US are learning how to defend themselves against hijab grabs.

THE SHARK YAWNED

friendly reminder this shark week that - for every human killed by a shark 25 million sharks are killed by people - when we swim we’re in THEIR habitat - they don’t even like to eat us we’re too bony, when they do bite us they think we’re seals - sharks have been around since prehistoric times and now they’re endangered animals because of us -the media likes to portray sharks as deadly monsters bc they look scary but really we’re the ones killing them

I still don’t get this whole “all these mass shootings are faked by the government to take MAH GUNZ” Alex Jones conspiracy thing.

Virginia tech occurred. Nothing happened and gun laws were not changed.  

Aurora occurred:  Nothing happened and gun laws were not changed

Sandy Hook occurred.  Nothing happened and gun laws were not changed.

Orlando Pulse Club occurred  Nothing happened and gun laws were not changed.

Las Vegas…well, who are we kidding?

If this is a top-level government conspiracy to steal your guns, it’s a rather shitty one, frankly.

This is the weirdest football game I’ve ever seen but I’m into it!  

mY mOsT fAvOrItE GiF eVeR!

Idk why im in Monica Lewinsky’s twitter likes but anyway do you think she is a one direction fan or a communist or both