Blog Comments

Kinetica Online is pleased to provide direct links to commentaries from our senior editor Dr. Steven Pelech has posted on other blogs sites. Most of these comments appear on the GenomeWeb Daily Scan website, which in turn highlight interesting blogs that have been posted at numerous sites in the blogosphere since the beginning of 2010. A wide variety of topical subjects are covered ranging from the latest scientific breakthroughs, research trends, politics and career advice. The original blogs and Dr. Pelech’s comments are summarized here under the title of the original blog. Should viewers wish to add to these discussions, they should add their comments at the original blog sites.

The views expressed by Dr. Pelech do not necessarily reflect those of the other management and staff at Kinexus Bioinformatics Corporation. However, we wish to encourage healthy debate that might spur improvements in how biomedical research is supported and conducted.

Antibiotic Resistance

That's Called Thinking Ahead

Blogger Ed Yong at Not Exactly Rocket wrote that while antibiotic resistance is a problem for modern medicine, antibiotic resistance was developed by bacteria at least tens of thousands of years ago, long before antibiotics came about. Researchers from McMaster University found bacteria in 30,000-year-old frozen soil samples that feature a wide variety of antibiotic resistance genes against modern drugs such as tetracyclines and vancomycin. S. Pelech comments that in the battle for survival, all organisms have apparently developed mechanisms to detoxify compounds that are found in their environments. For example, our livers provide essential protection against diverse and even new compounds in the natural and processed foods that we take for granted in our diet. Read More...