Phages: nature's ninjas in the battle against superbugs | Heather Hendrickson | TEDxTauranga
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 พ.ค. 2024
- In a world where bacteria are increasingly resistant to antibiotics, the discovery of novel Bacteriaphages, bacteria's million year old adversary, could assist with the development of therapies to control life-threatening bacteria..
Heather Hendrickson is a Senior Lecturer at Massey University, where she leads the Hendrickson lab. She investigates bacterial genomes to understand how they evolve and exchange information, a process known as Horizontal Gene Transfer. She also hunts for novel Bacteriaphages to isolate and study; to assist with the continuing pursuit of finding alternative treatments to bacterial diseases.
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Why doesn't this have 10 M views? Why is the general public not aware of the effects of antibiotics?? Why is the pharmaceutical industry so hard headed in investing in alternative treatments???? Ppl need to get woke smh. Mom's don't wanna give kids vaccines, doctors hand out antibiotics like candy.. CMON NOW
Melanie Miranda. The pharmaceutical industry's research to make more meds are paid for by the tax payers and the research done by universities, which they steal and patent, for their huge markups, gauging the public and brainwashing them into their eay of thinking. YOU ARE SICK AND WE CAN SAVE YOU. THEY DO NOT CURE ANY THING. BRAINWASHIMG US. BS industry. Before antibiotics people used maggots to clean their wounds.
@@zelenplav1701 Antibiotics have been prescribed for viruses. Medicines called antivirals do that. The process for antibiotics is much kinder. The tax payers pay and the universities do research, then the universities pass the info on to the pharmacies. Then the antibiotics saved lives. Last, they got immune.
Every year we hear scientists are telling us they are losing the fight making the next antibiotics and we are dangerously close to a super bug.
It’s sad this isn’t forefront in the news and talked about in the mainstream discussions.
Pharma can't make money on it, so it will never be used.
@GTA and Apple channel yup they use it in the country of Georgia as well and from the last time I looked they had 0 deaths from the Coronavirus. They were using phages in the 30's until penicillin became popular to use.
Magnibus They only did that because of extremely drastic measures. And only then it had to be suggested, the FDA was never going to step in without a cry for help.
We need to stay healthy and close to nature and stop feeding the bacteria and viruses ,, viruses were here before us and will be here when we’re gone
Georgia has been using phages for 80 years and they have the biggest phage collection in the world. In the Western we chose to promote antibiotics instead. Not saying it was the wrong decision but it was based on the assumption that we wouldn't need anything else. Now that the battleground is turning in favor of the bacteria, we have to change this mindset very rapidly.
Update: The US Navy has been doing a bit of phage hunting and now has a quite powerful arsenal of phages at their disposal. If the US government officially gets behind this idea, hopefully that can push the pharmaceutical industry out of the way of development.
Soo... My husband was recently diagnosed with CLL leukemia... We are currently homeless, uninsured... He is terrified of dying ultimately from painful infections... I'm spending all day and night researching anything that might give him more time. These phages give me hope even though we'd have to move mountains to travel out of the USA to get treatment. If anyone has information that would be helpful to my situation, please, I need all the help I can get...
incredible talk, all information was really well conveyed!
And also, even if the bacteria get a resistance to the phage, they have to give up their antibiotic resistance
Gronkle Vlonkle phages evolve with the bacteria so it’s doubtful.
there is a biological arms race between bacteria and the phages so i doubt bacteria would get a resistance
Great Explanation!! just 11 years old but I too want to contribute in this field
Thank you for sharing this way of fighting.
Really interesting!
her shoes are so cool. Great talk too haha
Do you have phage against bacteroides fragilis, biofilm infection ?
what an excellent talk! go phage!
yeah
Amazing. But the phase issues with the sound on this video are absolutely dreadful.
Incredible! I hope to become a phage hunter.
This woman is an atheist monster.
Why is that relevant? Let's not use assuming words to describe people.
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where can we get these phages cos im sick as hell.what sorts of phages do I need,my nephew also has cystic fibrosis does that mean he has pseudomonas?
How are you now?
I wish there was a cure for Prurigo Nodularis which I believe is a bacterial infection rather than just a self afflicted dry skin condition that the lazy dermatologist claim it to be. I hate being chronically ill!
If you put it on 1.25 speed she talks like a normal person
omg, it work and saved me few secs
not the slowest talker I've seen
Bacteriophages now available on Amazon - look for bacteriophagum-staphylococcum.
This is amazing
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1.5 speed works better
Can I marry her voice?
So you have to find the rite phage for the rite bug?
bacteria phages will become like our double-edge sword against a nearly indefatigable foe. We will need to find the right ones. There is a low chance of them mutating to go against us, though there is a chance bacteria can evolve a way to right them. Do you know that we store the dna of every virus we tend to come up with to produce specialized white cells which more effectively deal with the virus, and keep those in reserve to release only when we encounter that virus? Imagine if the mechanisms in humans were genetically re-structured so that instead of using the slightly effective white blood cell, humans themselves produced bacteria phages which actively combated other bacteria. It's something to think about, if we had active defenses aganist these things, it could be like an umbrella around your body which responds to specific viruses, infects them, and only uses that type of cell to reproduce... (it would never turn on your own cells, hopefully)
Genetic engineers could also theoretically devise a bug bomb. Imagine a small capsule which breaks down only in the event of a certain pathogen entering your system. This would activate the phage seeds inside the capsule, allowing them to spread, locate the virus, and take it out. this bacteria phage might starve after taking out the pathogen, so there's no danger for overgrowth.
Rosita Actually, phages evolve to kill bacteria that evolved to defend against phages. It’s an arms race for phages against bacteria. And even then, when bacteria up their phage resistance, they also decrease their antibiotic resistance.
Would our immune system get rid of the phages? ive read that most phages are hunted from the environment. doesnt that means they are foreign particles?
Once phages have eliminated their target bacteria, they no longer have cells to invade, so the body's immune system would clear them
where can I go to get these viruses,i have no immune and infections like staph or strep,not sure yet what it is as opnly just caught it.please help me get these viruses or I will die
becksta29 google floraphage
what is the point in this ifbthey don't say what phage it is.
Phages are viruses that kill bacteria. Strange that this information did not come through clearly to you. Or are you wondering what a virus really is? It is a small entity that does not respond to antibiotics. What is the point? The point is that there is an alternative to antibiotics to cut down on their overuse?
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This was not well explained at all.
Bacteriophage (phage) - a virus that attacks bacteria.