antibiotic-resistance
3 stories tagged "antibiotic-resistance"
The 'Pac-Man' Enzyme That Eats Bioplastic Also Breaks Down Penicillin
Konstanz researchers pulled an enzyme from forest soil that digests an experimental bioplastic and also cuts open penicillin. The press release says every bioplastic completely degraded. The paper's carbon numbers and the intact buried films say otherwise, and nobody put the gene in a living bacteri
Infectious DiseaseWeathered Plastic in the Water Grows Its Own City of Drug-Resistant Bacteria
On weathered plastic drifting from a lake into a river, researchers logged 102 new antibiotic-resistance gene subtypes moving into the surrounding water in five weeks.
Infectious DiseaseMexican Jalapeños Sickened 1,400 Americans in 2008. Eighteen Years Later, a Different Farm and the Same Import Gap Did It Again.
Salmonella Javiana in jalapeños from Sinaloa has sickened 345 people across 27 states. It is the second time in eighteen years that imported Mexican peppers have done this, and the FDA still physically inspects only about 1 to 2 percent of the food crossing the border.