Science and technology: Medical treatment: Feed a virus, starve a bacterium 科学与技术:医疗:感染病毒时进食,感染细菌时禁食 An old wives tale gets some support from medical science. 无稽之谈获医学证实。 Whether it i

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Bacteria Discovered To Recharge Cell Phone A microbe called Rhodoferax Ferrireducens,found in the mud at Oyster Bay,Virginia,has been discovered to transfer electrons directly onto an electrode

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A passionate kiss shares much more than intimacy. A single 10-second smooch can transfer tens of millions of bacteria from one partner to the other. Thats the finding from a study in the journal Microbiome. [Remco Kort et al, Shaping the oral microbi

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相信吗?你身上寄生的细菌群有辨识身份的功能。 They say that who you hang out with says a lot about who you are. Well, the microbes that hang out on your fingers can point to exactly who you are. Because scientists [Noah Fierera e

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博妮 柏索发现细菌间是会交谈的,它们用一种化学语言来达到共同防卫,协同攻击的行为。这个发现对今后的医疗,工业有着重大的意义,包括怎样认识我们人类自己。

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访谈录,手机,温床,Three out of four Americans do have cell phones. But new research from Britain has found that they could be well breeding grounds for germs and ABC's Heather Nauert right here with us back from the ne

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Copper Metal Kills Viruses on Contact 铜能杀死细菌和病毒 Even in the world of medicine, what is old is new again. 医药界也刮起了复古风。 Thousands of years ago, Egyptians used it to sterilize drinking water. Ancient Romans, Aztecs

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Bacteria Bacteria are extremely small living things. While we measure our own sizes in inches or centimeters, bacterial size is measured in microns. One micron is a thousandth of a millimeter: a pinhead is about a millimeter across. Rod-shaped bacter

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But then if you think about it, the squid has this terrible problem 但是如果你再深入地想一下,这乌贼会有一个可怕的问题, because it's got this dying, thick culture of bacteria and it can't sustain that. 因为在它的体内,

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And the final thing is, again just to reiterate that there's this practical part, 最后,只是再一次重申,这个研究的实际应用方面, and so we've made these anti-quorum sensing molecules that are being developed as new kinds of the

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And what I would hope that I could further argue to you is that this is the invention of multicellularity. 我希望能进一步地说服你们的是,这就是多细胞生物的起源。 Bacteria have been on the Earth for billions of years; humans

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To finish I'll just show you the strategy. 最后,我只跟你们说一下战略。 And this one I'm just using the interspecies molecule, but the logic is exactly the same. 在这里,我们只是使用跨菌种分子,但是思维逻辑是一模一

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Amd of course, you've just heard and you already know that we're running out of antibiotics. 当然,你一定听说过,而且你早就知道了,我们快要没有有效的抗生素了。 Bacteria are incredibly multi-drug-resistant right now, a

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So we went back to molecular biology and started studying different bacteria, 所以我们回到分子生物学的方法,开始研究不同的细菌, and what we've found now is that in fact, bacteria are multilingual. 我们现在已经发现,事

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We also then went to look at what are these molecules -- these were the red triangles on my slides before. 我们同时也研究了这些小分子,这些就是我刚才幻灯上的小红三角形。 And so this is the Vibrio fischeri molecule. This

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Why this is interesting is because in the past decade we have found that this is not just some anomaly of this ridiculous, 这个发现之所以有趣,是因为在过去十年间,我们发现这种现象不只局限在这种古怪的、 glow-in-t

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The reason that Vibrio fischeri is doing that comes from the biology. 费氏弧菌的发光现象来自生物学上的原因。 So again, another plug for the animals in the ocean, Vibrio fischeri lives in this squid. 接下来,我们再来看一个海

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What was actually interesting to us was not that the bacteria made light, but when the bacteria made light. 事实上,我们感兴趣的部分并不是细菌会不会发光,而是细菌何时发光。 What we noticed is when the bacteria were alo

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These bacteria are not passive riders, these are incredibly important, they keep us alive. 这些细菌不是顺从的乘客,他们难以置信得重要,他们让我们活着。 They cover us in an invisible body armor that keeps environmental in

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Bacteria are the oldest living organisms on the earth. 细菌是地球上最古老的生物。 They've been here for billions of years, and what they are are single-celled microscopic organisms. 它们已经存在数十亿年了,它们是单细胞微

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