Researchers develop new weapon to fight against resistant bacteria
Every day, people die from simple infections even though they have been treated with antibiotics. This is because more and more bacteria have become resistant to the types of antibiotics that doctors can prescribe.
- It s a huge societal problem and a crisis that we must solve. For example, by developing new antibiotics that can defeat the resistant bacteria, says professor of chemistry at the Department of Physics, Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of Southern Denmark, Poul Nielsen.
Resistant bacteria are not only known from pig farms, where it is becoming increasingly difficult to keep the pigsties disease-free. Hospitals are also experiencing with increasing regularity that, for example, infectious diseases cannot be controlled in patients. Thus, an infection in a surgical wound can become life-threatening even if the operation went well.
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Every day, people die from simple infections even though they have been treated with antibiotics. This is because more and more bacteria have become resistant to the types of antibiotics that doctors can prescribe.
- It s a huge societal problem and a crisis that we must solve. For example, by developing new antibiotics that can defeat the resistant bacteria, says professor of chemistry at the Department of Physics, Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of Southern Denmark, Poul Nielsen.
Resistant bacteria are not only known from pig farms, where it is becoming increasingly difficult to keep the pigsties disease-free. Hospitals are also experiencing with increasing regularity that, for example, infectious diseases cannot be controlled in patients. Thus, an infection in a surgical wound can become life-threatening even if the operation went well.
What makes a “good drone”? Are we in the drone industry making technology that will benefit society by enhancing human welfare, freedom, and fairness? Or will drones facilitate mass surveillance, deepen widespread unemployment, and increase inequality? This webinar will addresses some of the changes that this technology could facilitate – and how to design drones that may lead to more beneficial outcomes.
Dylan Cawthorne, Associate Professor at the University of Southern Denmark, the first researcher to explicitly utilize value sensitive design (VSD) to design, build, and test real drone prototypes.
Two case studies will be presented: first, briefly, that of a humanitarian cargo drone to be operated in the Amazon region of Peru, and second, a blood sample transportation drone to be used in Denmark.
Femur believed to be from Jesus’s brother for more than 500 years by the Catholic Church is actually from a person hundreds of years younger, study reveals
A femur supposedly belonging to St. James the Younger has been in Santi Apostoli Church since the sixth century
James is believed to have been stoned to death in 60 AD
Radiocarbon dating of the bone indicate it dates to between 214 and 340 AD
Various sources have claimed James was Jesus brother or half-brother
Other bones, reportedly belonging to St. Philip, were too contaminated to date
Do These Bones Belong to The Brother of Jesus? Published February 4th, 2021 - 10:04 GMT
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Various sources have claimed James was Jesus brother or half-brother
For more than 1,500 years Catholics have made pilgrimage to Rome s Santi Apostoli Church to venerate two apostles, St. Philip and St. James the Younger - who is said to have been Jesus brother.
Bones believed to belong to the martyred saints are enshrined at the basilica and each encasing bears the name of the saint.
But now archaeologists say skeletal fragments enshrined at the church are too recent to have come from the time of Jesus Christ.