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Now, this is the game we're playing against the bacteria, except we're not the cheetahs, we're the gazelles, and the bacteria would, just in the course of this little talk, would have had kids and grandkids and figured out how to be resistant just by selection and trial and error, trying it over and over again.
So those are also resistant.
Turns out that rats are also resistant to poisons.
There’s more information available today and more advanced technology to preserve it, though we can’t know for sure that our digital archives will be more resistant to destruction than Alexandria’s ink and paper scrolls.
But like the monks before us, we can puzzle over them together, and investigate just how resistant they are to simple explanations.
I study genes that make plants resistant to disease and tolerant of stress.
We found we could engineer the gene into a conventional rice variety that's normally susceptible, and you can see the two leaves on the bottom here are highly resistant to infection.
In 2000, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the CDC, identified a single case in a hospital in North Carolina of an infection resistant to all but two drugs.
In 2008, doctors in Sweden diagnosed a man from India with a different infection resistant to all but one drug that time.
In the United States, possibly 80 percent of the antibiotics sold every year go to farm animals, not to humans, creating resistant bacteria that move off the farm in water, in dust, in the meat the animals become.
Bigger, messier proteins can be more resistant to being pulled apart, so scientists attach a plastic bead to one end that adds extra stress and encourages it to fold up first.
Fiber can also trap some starches, preventing them from being cleaved, resulting in something called resistant starch.
Mutans streptococci are resistant to this acid, but unfortunately, our teeth aren't.
But this industry body, I can tell you, has been quite resistant to updating their standards.
You actually see a great potential, but you see a lot of people who are sort of defending their turf, and may actually be very resistant, when one tries to introduce ideas.
And when we met him he was very resistant.
Those are bacteria that have become resistant to many, if not all, of the antibiotics that we have developed to treat this infection.
So even if you have a drug that's highly effective, that kills almost all the cells, there is a chance that there's a small population that's resistant to the drug.
Interestingly, ECT maintenance works better when paired with medication, even in patients who were resistant to medication before.
We have an anger of hope, and we see it every single day in the resistant anger of women and marginalized people.
] [ XDR-TB: ] [ extreme drug resistant tuberculosis.
Just a half a millionth of a liter of a venom, diluted 10,000 times, is still capable of killing most bacteria that are resistant to any other kind of antibiotics.
And of course the main thing is that you shouldn't trust people who call themselves gerontologists because, as with any radical departure from previous thinking within a particular field, you know, you expect people in the mainstream to be a bit resistant and not really to take it seriously.
And people are very resistant to ideas, and rightly so.
However, the same structural changes that turn red blood cells into roadblocks also make them more resistant to malaria.
It is resistant to Tamiflu.
When I spoke to the psychiatrist, he explained to me that trauma survivors are often resistant to dealing with the difficult issues that they face and often miss appointments.
She wasn't resistant, it's just that her ride didn't show.
Sometimes, in the middle of a resistant problem, I write down things that I know about it.
In the US alone every year, more than two million people will get an antibiotic resistant infection, and over 23,000 people will die as a result of that infection.
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