Comments on: Cockroaches Have Super Antibiotics in Their Brains; We Must Steal Them

By: DCP

DCP — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 18:41:22 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mg-CYdT0dDQ – i think you all need a bit more of this…

By: hhh

hhh — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 21:45:26 +0000

I like bacteria!

By: Bala Bafoofkit

Bala Bafoofkit — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 07:15:06 +0000

What about quorum defeating agents?

By: Well Now

Well Now — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 12:06:31 +0000

@9 So many live without a brain…evolution will either dispense with the remaining head soon or use it to house parasites…..perhaps a petri dish for roach brains!

By: barry

barry — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 06:57:24 +0000

@12 Pretty much. It will only delay the inevitable. We’ve learn’t given enough time, bacteria will adapt to just about anything. It’s not like all bacteria are out to kills us. Many have adapted to work with our bodies. It’s about maintaining balance.

Population was, and will always be the biggest problem in maintaining this balance. They’re trying to survive just as we are.

By: chrystalala

chrystalala — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 16:37:07 +0000

@1-14: I invite you all to a mixer at my house. I’ll be serving Staphylococcus cocktails, with a phage chaser. Should be a wild ride!! Keep studying, it looks good on you.

By: Dave K.

Dave K. — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 14:00:55 +0000

If we just cultivated bacterophages instead of looking for dumb molecules, we’d be able to keep up with any bacterial evolution of resistance because the phages would evolve more quickly.

By: mengu gulmen

mengu gulmen — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 00:45:17 +0000

great, so let’s make the bacteria resistant to cockroach antibiotics too. so they too will be extinct. great plan.

don’t fight the bacteria guys, you can’t win.

By: Toby

Toby — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 20:01:00 +0000

Dont do it, it’s not “we” that have discovered the next step. It is the bugs living with us, recognizing another stage of evolution to develop their growing powers. Soon all of the earth will be covered in mould, and bacteria. Infesting our bodies and destroying much living tissue. The much anticipated plague of boils and sores on the earth, it’s happened before see. Look back into our genetic repository and you will find, remnants of our resistance.
I’m sorry I have worked with bacteria for 10 years, you will not kill them, in their simplicity lies the key to their stranglehold. We must find something simple to kill them, or as pastuer would say, just change the host ph. Then many bugs die. Where there is no habitat, nothing can survive, let those who have ears to hear, let them hear.

By: Andrew Moseman

Andrew Moseman — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 15:47:02 +0000

@Jumblepudding, “When the cockroach woke up one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrously powerful antibiotic.”

By: Jumblepudding

Jumblepudding — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 15:26:53 +0000

I say we call the new antibiotic derived from cockroach brains Kafkacycline.

By: Anadactyl

Anadactyl — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 13:44:49 +0000

I just want to figure out how to live without a head.

By: Wesley

Wesley — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 16:03:24 +0000

@4: Bacteria swap genes all the time. @3 is right, that we could be effectively neutralizing large parts of the cock roaches immune system, and any other bugs that use the same or similar antibiotics.. Hopefully with the new antibiotics we find like these ones we’re a little more cautious than we were with the first ones we developed!

By: me

me — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 02:31:04 +0000

I for one welcome our new roach brain ingesting overlords.

By: scribbler

scribbler — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 21:27:00 +0000

Live forever?

You mean like beyond the end of the universe and all?

By: Concentric

Concentric — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 02:40:42 +0000

What do we (humans) do with this knowledge? That is the question. Can we learn to live forever from the cockroach brain? Can we isolate this capability that roaches have and use it to heal us (humans)???

By: Jo

Jo — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 20:44:42 +0000

@3: Only if the bacteria we’re using it on infects roaches as well. But if that were the case … they’d probably evolve new antibiotics … and we could extract it all over again. Win!

By: beanfeast

beanfeast — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:30:49 +0000

@1 But at least at the end of this 10 year reprieve the cockroaches should start dying as well.

By: John

John — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:22:23 +0000

epic saucery

By: Rhacodactylus

Rhacodactylus — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:19:29 +0000

Sweet another 10 year reprieve from the end of the antibiotic age!