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What are bacteria? How do antibiotics work? And what can we do about increasing antibiotic resistance? Jenny Rohn, scientist and novelist, investigates the fascinating world of bacteria in this Friday Evening Discourse event from the Ri.
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Bacteria are our ancient enemies, evolving ever more clever ways of outmanoeuvring our natural defences and scientific technologies. For millennia, a simple cut or cough could kill. With the development of antibiotics, it seemed we would reign supreme.
But now the bacteria are again gaining ground.
With antibiotic resistance on the rise, and the development of new drugs having stagnated for decades, we humans might be in a lot of trouble very soon. Why are bacteria so insidious, what tricks do they employ to get the upper hand, and what can we do to stop them? Join Dr Jenny Rohn to explore these questions.
Dr Jenny Rohn received a BA in Biology from Oberlin College, Ohio, where she developed an interest in viruses and cancer before moving to the University of Washington for her PhD research into the evolution of feline leukaemia virus.
After working as a researcher at Cancer Research UK and working in the biotechology industry in The Netherlands, Jenny gained a Wellcome Trust fellowship to study cell shape and architecture at University College London. She is now head of a cell biology lab where she studies how the cells of our body interact with invading bacteria.
This event took place at the Royal Institution on Friday 30 January.
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Bacteria are actually quite easy to eliminate with resonant frequency therapy. It is truly a crime that this therapy is not utilized in every doctor's office in the world. The FDA prohibits its use in modern medicine, saying that it is a "snake oil" therapy. However, they tripped up and issued a separate opinion regarding the use of resonant frequencies to kill microbes present in food. This time they admitted it would indeed kill bacteria in a very precise manner, revealing their hypocrisy.
It is thought that these frequencies disrupt either DNA replication or ionic flow through the cell membrane. The cells either are deactivated without fanfare or proceed to violently rupture. Videos of this can be found on youtube. It is also referred to as "Rife Therapy" or the "doug coil". A doug coil has been used by countless lyme disease patients to help rid their bodies of this deadly bacteria when antibiotics fail. There are many many people who call this machine a miracle device which gave them their life back.
I personally had a 15 year staph infection on my feet which occasionally would become serious. Antibiotics would slow it down but would not stop it entirely. This machine killed it very effectively over the course of several weeks. I've never had better results, even with pharmaceuticals. It is truly wonderful.
The machine is completely open source. The plans for a doug coil can be easily found on the internet for free. All one needs are some capacitors, a stereo, a coil and a computer and some electrical know how in order to build one. The resonant frequencies for individual bugs can be found in the "CAFL" or in various forums.
Microbes in general and bacteria in particular, especially the pathogenic ones can be controlled because man has the the secret to the social life of bacterria which has relevance to origin of life and possible intelligent destruction of life….illnesses/diseases and death. Beyond revenge pathogenic bacteria are just acting in an intelligent way amongst many scenario they encounter in the handling of antibiotics by man. We can act much more intelligently to overcome antibiotics resistance by bacteria
Some very ignorant comments here, by some. The correct antibiotic used appropriately for specific bacterial infections (not the common cold or flu) can be life saving. Empirical use of antibiotics usually at the GP level without bacterial culture and sensitivity testing may be a style of treatment that is coming to an end as the problem of increased bacterial resistance escalates. Avoidance of antibiotic treatment should be based on sound clinical judgement, not by a decision that antibiotics are harmful as many in the community believe, as late stage treatment of most infections becomes that much more difficult. Over use of antibiotic therapy is still an issue but from the point of view of resistance to antibiotics non compliance with a treatment course is a disaster.
Hello guys, I'm so inspired by your talk, thank you Dr Jenny Rohn, I'm Hector Aguilan based here in New York. I'm on my second year of my Master's in Biotechnology and currently working on antimicrobial peptides and got positive results on both Gram negative and Gram positive bacteria. since your problem is to look for a compound that will kill broad spectrum, probably my research will solve the problem on antibiotic resistance. if you want to contact me, please email me anytime, here is my add haguilan@aol.com
Among Ri's talks there are knowledge gems. This is one such gem. Jenny Rohn's research and thoughts are a joy to explore.
Yes, it takes money to make these new drugs. How much more money would we have for drug research if taxpayers didn't bail out banks? The very rich think they have it made with so much money, but when they get an infection and there's no antibiotic, they could die like anyone else.
Hi Kitty. How are you? The fact is that we already co exist with bacteria very successfully. Before birth we are 100% human. Post birth we are mostly 'foreign owned'. A great documentary to watch is called 'Life on us', by the ABC. Blew my small mind. Don't believe the hype and give your power away to big profiteering companies who will fill you with fear. Thanks for replying, David.
but without bacteria to challenge our immune system, it would surely get weaker and weaker.
alright… so the bacteria is on revenge mode, and the oly solution is throw money at the problem…. sounds good.
Note for self: there are more bacteria cells in a human body than there are human cells, mostly everyone of them essential for our survival…
Starting out a presentation with a false analogy and saying dumb shit is never good. The genome every human carries around IS the result of about a half billion years of coexistence and combat with bacteria and not only a result of some 200 thousand years of human evolution. To say anything else is to suggest that human has been magically injected in the Earth ecosystem with out any evolutionary history written in it. Surely, this woman cant be so stupid she believes in such nonsense which begs the question whether it is me that does not get the point?
excellent presentation
What an awesome lady Dr Rohn is, fantastic presentation. Her enthusiastic demeanour is truly infectious…
Bacteria make us sick and kill us,despite all the reservation,thanks to antibiotics,we are all well today.
13 &.26 min sos makrofage (a greek word meaning =eat from far) 16 penicillin G (intravenous use Penicillin was discovered in 1928 by Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming Florey and Chain = Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 = Common adverse drug reactions (≥ 1% of people) associated with use of the penicillins include diarrhoea, hypersensitivity, nausea, rash, neurotoxicity, urticaria, and superinfection (including candidiasis). Infrequent adverse effects (0.1–1% of people) include fever, vomiting, erythema, dermatitis, angioedema, seizures (especially in people with epilepsy), and pseudomembranous colitis.[10]
About 10% of people report that they are allergic to penicillin; however, 90% of this group are not actually allergic.[the first recorded discovery of lysozyme, an enzyme present in many secretions including tears, saliva, skin, hair and nails as well as mucus. Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford took up researching and mass-producing it, with funds from the U.S. and British governments. They started mass production after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. By D-Day in 1944, enough penicillin had been produced to treat all the wounded with the Allied forces.
27 min MRSA resitant29 min acceleration of mutation bacteria 500xtimes man does 40 'Teixobactin Η βανκομυκίνη (vancomycin) είναι ένα χρωματογραφικά κεκαθαρμένο, τρικυκλικό γλυκοπεπτίδιο, αντιβιοτικό. Η βακτηριοκτόνος δράση της βανκομυκίνης οφείλεται στην αναστολή της σύνθεσης του κυτταρικού τοιχώματος των βακτηρίων.
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biofilm in teeth 42 min
Why worry,at the end of the day our soul's will alway's exist.We no nothing?.
those tubers occured OVER 9000 years ago.
Please forgive me if I am wrong. To the best of my knowledge, bacteria is Mother Nature who supports every living organisms on the earth. Killing bacteria is going against nature. The best policy is to find a way to coexist with bacteria. Bacteria is not the cause of our illness. Bacteria is just the result of a disease. People blame bacteria for all their disease. This is quite unfair in the eyes of bacteria. It is people’s unhealthy lifestyle that is to blame for their disease. People abuse their body. If they get sick, they put all the responsibility on the bacteria. Bacteria is just a scapegoat.
Just as flies come to clean the rotten food and lay eggs there, bacteria come to clean the rotten part of the body. Without bacteria, our planet earth would be smelly waste ground. I am living a bacteria friendly life. I have never taken antibiotics for the past 30 years. But I have had no problem. Rather, I am much healthier than those who take antibiotics every time they don’t feel well.
Why do scientist don't educate us how to use the abundant natural available antibiotics (Oregano Oil; Cayenne Pepper ;Grapefruit Seed Extract (GSE) ; Colloidal Silver; Garlic; Ginger; Olive Leaf Extract; Turmeric; Echinacea; Manuka Honey) ? Why do you keep us in dark and illiterate with this so called fancy discoveries ? Is science the slave and serve the Money …….than humanity ?
Pharmaceutical industry is the most corrupt industry ,the world have ever seen . Everything is in balance in nature . the nature have created bacteria ,microbes or viruses for a reason . they are the tools of population control , a baro meter . whenever , human population is out of control there is /will be a pandemic , no matter how many antibiotics we have . the next outbreak is due and it will be on biblical scale ,billions will die . we are just trying to build a super human , a robot who will live forever , thats not gonna happen , mankind is the biggest threat to this planet , no one can live for ever , you have to die at some point but only because we love our kids, we indulge in human sentiments and for financial gains for the industry , we just stuffed them with vaccines , thinking they will save their lives but they still die in many other ways ,a car crash , a war , terrorism many other reasons . so stop making billion of dollars pretending that you gonna save humanity by selling us these wonder pills….
What happened to vincamiacin?
Long therapies with antibiotics increase all cause women's' mortality by 27%!
https://newsroom.heart.org/news/womens-antibiotic-use-linked-to-higher-risk-of-death-from-heart-disease-other-causes
Very entertaining and informative, thanks, Dr. Rohn.
Impossible thAt we as a species got "invaded"by bacteria as we cannot exist withoutbacteria and cant fight diseases or digest goon without many species of bacteria..as always symbiotic all always having existed makes more sense than evolutionary theory!!
LOVED this talk but I have one tiny gripe: Selman Waksman did not
singlehandedlydiscover streptomycin and several other actinomycete antibiotics. A lot of the work was done by his students and assistants, and there was actually a vicious legal battle in 1950 when he tried to deny his graduate student Albert Schatz credit as the co-discoverer of streptomycinWaksman and his lab associates did make an enormously significant contribution to human medicine (especially by discovering the first working tuberculosis treatment, streptomycin), and microbiological history. I go to Rutgers and I feel humbled and awed having the opportunity to learn microbiology in the place where those tremendous discoveries were made.
#1 cause of antibiotic resistance: feeding antibiotics prophylactically to livestock. It must stop, but our scientifically illiterate elected officials refuse to act.
I took antibiotics for a tooth infection and the last three tablets were spoiled when they got wet and dissolved away in the packet. This happened last yr and now I'm worried I will be resistant and die the next time I need them for something serious. Holy shit infections are a horrible way to die from.
Why so many people knows so little of biomedicine trying to out smart the speaker in the commentary area is really astonishing. Common people is really good at simplifying things from 10 years study to 10 minutes hearsay. Stop reading face book news and tweeters , read three books on a topic before we claim we know something, please
why you never have a Q and A session?????
Bacteria ain't real! Silly globe heads thinking all this bacterial mumbo jumbo is real. The earth is definetly 6k years and the only proof iz need is gal darn common sense. The earth is flat and hollow, nd now I have to rewind this video because I wasn't listnin. Also she is def cute and smart!
It is not "out at the coast of Israel" but "occupied Palestine"!!! A scholar of no ethical background has no scientific credibility as well! Please correct your geographical history in your next lecture!!!!!
The term "invaded us" is totally a misconception because evolution wise they were a part of being a human all the time since we emerged from the water as reptiles and amphibians !!!
cool
Dr.Rohn, the first mistake of yours, you mention that bacteria is present in us and then separately mention their presence in animals.
(Aren't we animals too?)
You say, we are highly evolved, and we are at the top of the food chain.
(We aren't, we just act as we did.)
This amazing lady's lecture is the difference of giving facts and bestowing understanding.