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baggier t1_jd2azh3 wrote
Reply to comment by Jonafree in A artificially produced enzyme has proven useful for treating staphylococcus infections in people with skin lymphoma. This is good news for the patients, but also for the global threat of antibiotics resistance. by UCPH
agrred. I am not sure that topical application will be totally effective as the bacteria can hide systemically, and it is not clear whether the enzyme can be administered say by injection without clearance and immune problems. Lots of things kill bacteria, (fire, acids etc) only a very few are useful in humans.
baggier t1_jaac8mv wrote
Reply to comment by breckenridgeback in ELI5: Modulus of Elasticity - incredibly high values for wood? by u193
This. The modulus of elasticity is the force need to stretch something (hypothetically) 100% . Most things cant stretch 100% so you stretch it by say 1% and multiply the result by 100
baggier t1_j9caxny wrote
Reply to According to a new study, researchers propose a novel theory about how the molecules of life may have developed a preferred chirality, or “handedness.” Understanding more about how the concept influences our living beings could help scientists develop drugs to fight molecular disease, like cancer. by Impossible_Cookie596
Probably wrong, though cant get the original article due to paywall. This has been suggested before and is not needed, any autocatalytic process with a negative feedback loop (e.g. one enantiomer inhibiting production of the other or using the other as feedstock) will end up with just one enantiomer surviving.
baggier t1_j9c9ai7 wrote
Reply to How did we first figure out which substances are elements and which are compounds? by sapphics4satan
Back in the day the key was weights. If two things combine to give a new substance that is heavier (say iron + oxygen to iron oxide) then it is obviously a compound. If a substance cleanly decomposes to two new substances, then the new substances are simpler and might be elements (say hydrogen peroxide to oxygen and water). After building up lots of these reaction it became clear that some things (e.g carbon) couldnt be decomposed into anything simpler and must be an element.
baggier t1_j4kdmz1 wrote
Muscle action depends on ions moving. If a fibre was too large it would take too long for the ions to diffuse or be pumped in and out. So muscle is faster by having lots of little fibres bundled than one big lump
baggier t1_j2tab8w wrote
Reply to comment by Duros001 in Molecularly, what make pine pitch sticky? by orangegore
I would broadly agree except on the density bit. Tar is not much denser than water but the key attribute is the size of the molecules. Larger molecules have more area to interact with each other, resulting in more attraction and slower motion (e.g. higher viscosity). Tar molecules are about 10-20 times bigger than water.
baggier t1_iyk3dha wrote
Reply to comment by dejco in New device can make hydrogen when dunked in salt water by TurretLauncher
then the graphite overpotentials mean you use more voltage and less efficiency
baggier t1_iybq0f0 wrote
Reply to Physically active lifestyle is associated with lower long-term incidence of bipolar disorder, study finds by chrisdh79
Is this cause or effect? I would imagine having any mental disorder e.g. depression would make one less likely to exercise.
baggier t1_iy2g9d1 wrote
Reply to Eli5: Old Three Stooges episodes show people occasionally breathing into paper bags as some sort of remedy for emergency situations involving stress or trauma… what was the belief then and what do we now know better about the practice? by coffeygrande
Hyperventilation can cause loss of CO2 from the blood leading to faint-headedness and panic. https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/003071.htm#:~:text=Excessive%20breathing%20creates%20a%20low,such%20as%20bleeding%20or%20infection. Breathing into a bag increases the CO2 into the blood (as you are rebreathing old breath) and restoring the balance.
baggier t1_itjvxjy wrote
Reply to comment by Morael in Why don't drugs provoke an immune response? by parrotlunaire
To continue - there are two main types of drugs - first small molecules (aspirin, speed, phenacetin etc). These molecules are generally too small for the immune system to see and dont have enough "docking" sites for the immune molecules to latch on to. Many modern drugs are big (e.g. proteins such as artificial insulin) and they are quite likely to generate immune responses if they dont look like what the body expects. They have lots of molecular sites for the immune molecules to grab and recognize. Often these molecules are "pegylated" by the chemists, surrounded by nonimmunogenic polymers that sheild the large molecule from the immune system.
baggier t1_je7mc6p wrote
Reply to comment by altmorty in This Swiss hypersonic hydrogen-powered jet will cut flights from Europe to Australia to 4 hours by altmorty
The prototype was a large sized drone powered by a conventional aviation fuel powered turbojet at speeds of about 200 km/h. The switch to hydrogen is theoretical, the hyperspeed (let alone supersonic) is just aspirational. And by aspirational I mean