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It's the texture of sharkskin that makes them resistant to fouling.
So what if we change the texture of medical devices to make them resistant to bacteria causing so many problems?
We kill bacteria with traditional antibiotics, and that selects for resistant mutants.
The rest turns into a stable compound, which survives filtration into the water systems, thereby exposing the very aquatic birds that would carry flu and providing them a chance to breed resistant strains.
And yet, when I look at the environment outside, you see how resistant architecture is to change.
You see how resistant it is to those very ideas.
There is a company called Sharklet Technologies that's now putting this on the surfaces in hospitals to keep bacteria from landing, which is better than dousing it with anti-bacterials or harsh cleansers that many, many organisms are now becoming drug resistant.
While overall new cases of HIV continue to drop in the world, this trend may be short-lived when the next wave of more aggressive and resistant viruses arrive.
She's milkier than her Sahiwal mom, and she's sturdier and more resistant to disease than her Fleckvieh father.
TD: Lakshmi has worked incredibly hard, even in inviting me, let alone everything else that she has done to make this happen, and I was somewhat resistant at times, and I was also very nervous throughout this week.
Number two, many growers are, in fact, petrified by the idea of resistance, that the pests will become resistant to the chemicals, just like in our case, that bacteria becomes resistant to antibiotics.
Then, on their second or third meeting--get this--he is the shy one, the one who is resistant to the girl's sexual advances, and yet, all she has to say is, "I'm old enough.
I was resistant, as I hadn't gone on the trip to sit in a movie theater, but I've got to admit that I don't regret a second of this one (especially with Stephen Malkmus' contribution).
And you have a lead character who is rudely resistant to the changes in his life that are being forced upon him, refusing to accept the curveball that life has given him, in the midst of a new country, a new manager, a new team, and a new girlfriend, who have all welcomed him and try to accept him.
Oh sure, Ritchie deserves some blame: surely he - or someone - ANYONE! - should have, and could have, taken his lead aside and insisted on something bordering on ACTUAL FEELING in her line readings (for her performance is so wooden it's a surprise the rest of the cast didn't get splinters), or at least display a semblance of warmth...but she seems resistant to be anything but a cinematic black hole.
GAY! Poor Ogilvy minces and flounces about the bogus English countryside, waving his asbestos white handkerchief about as if it were heat resistant armor.
I was resistant to the show at first because I was overwhelmed with shows like Moesha, the Parkers, and I didn't like the way they portrayed black people.
The story is set in a vicious medical camp-base, where the best German soldiers are brought to copulate with resistant enemy women.
Ashok digs into why she is so cold and resistant, but again she puts up a wall.
It is also a scourge that is most acutely felt in developing countries, where fake and low-quality pharmaceuticals kill more than 500,000 people a year and affect millions more by contributing to the emergence of diseases that are resistant to existing treatments.
The resulting momentum will create pressure for ministries, regulators, and other policymaking bodies – which may be the most resistant to change – to take complementary steps.
But high-quality private investors are resistant to financing lumpy, illiquid investments in fragile, volatile states.
The discovery of resistant strains of malaria meant not just that it would be harder to treat, but that the overall approach to fighting the disease would have to change.
Beauty is resistant to the hubbub of the absurd.
According to the World Health Organization, “480,000 people develop multi-drug resistant TB each year, and drug resistance is starting to complicate the fight against HIV and malaria, as well.”
Patients admitted to ICUs become colonized rapidly with hospital bacterial pathogens, which often are resistant to antibiotics.
In the late 1980’s, biologists found strains that were resistant to all known insecticides.
The more complex and costly the mechanisms used, the less fit the resistant population will be.
Cells in laboratory cultures that are resistant to chemotherapies typically lose their resistance when the chemicals are removed.
Lung cancer cells that are resistant to the chemotherapy gemcitabine are less proliferative, invasive, and motile than their drug-sensitive counterparts.
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