2013-06-29, 00:54
Quote:....Researchers at Harvard and Boston Universities studied the antibiotic mechanisms of silver. They conducted a series of experiments with E. coli in petri dishes and in live mice suffering from urinary tract infections to see how the precious metal kills Gram-negative bacteria. Their findings revealed that silver stages a multi-targeted attack on even the best-armed bacteria, breaking down their cell walls and increasing their production of reactive oxygen species (ROS). An increase in ROS molecules, as a result of traditional antibiotics or silver, triggers bacterial cell death...
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/?p=1749&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+DiscoverTopStories+%28Discover+Top+Stories%29
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth