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“In 2016, researchers found 3 antibiotics by swabbing for microbes in New York; on a metal stairway rail, a plastic payphone, and a street sign” (!) Very interesting thread:
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Antibiotic resistance is rising. This is bad. Nature, fortunately, gives us plenty of tools to fight back. In just the last few days, several papers have reported new microbe-killing proteins and viruses. 🧵
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It's fascinating that phages are becoming important, because in the 1920s and early '30s, before there were broadly effective antibiotics, phages looked like they might be the thing that would fight bacteria. This was the discovery of the doctor in Sinclair Lewis's *Arrowsmith*
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