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2000: Hour One: Phage
Therapy / Tau Neutrino
| When you think about treating a bacterial infection, you probably think of
using an antibiotic such as penicillin, vancomycin, or erythromycin. But before use of
Alexander Fleming's penicillin became widespread in the 1940's, the medical community was
focussing its attention on a different line of bacteria-killing research -- the
bacteriophage. First named in 1917 by researcher Felix d'Herelle at France's Pasteur
Institute, bacteriophages (or just phages for short) are viruses that prey upon bacteria.
They have a simple structure - a DNA-filled head attached by a shaft to spidery
"legs" that are used to grip onto the surface of a bacterium. Once a phage
latches onto a bacterium, it injects its payload of genetic material into the bacterium's
innards. The bacterium then begins to rapidly produce "daughter" copies of the
phage -- until the bacterium becomes too full and ruptures, sending hundreds of new phage
particles into the open world. |
Electron micrograph of phage courtesy
the Australian National University.
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Doctors used phages as medical
treatment for illnesses ranging from cholera to typhoid fevers. In some cases, a liquid
containing the phage was poured into an open wound. In others, they were given orally, via
aerosol, or injected. In some cases, the treatments worked well - in others, they did not.
When antibiotics came into the mainstream, phage therapy largely faded in the west.
However, researchers in eastern Europe, including the former Soviet Union, continued
their studies of the potential healing properties of phages. And now that strains of
bacteria resistant to standard antibiotics are on the rise, the idea of phage therapy has
been getting more attention in the worldwide medical community. Several biotechnology
companies have been formed in the U.S. to develop bacteriophage-based treatments -- many
of them drawing on the expertise of researchers from eastern Europe. On this hour of
Science Friday, we'll take a look at the current state of phage research, talk about what
progress has been made in phage therapy, and about whether it may be a viable medical
option in the near future.
Plus - an international team of physicists working at the Fermi National
Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Batavia, Illinois, reported today that after 25 years
of looking, they had finally snapped the photograph of the tau neutrino, an elusive
inhabitant of the sub-atomic particle zoo.
The tau neutrino is one of three types of neutrinos predicted by the Standard Model of
particle physics, The other two types, the electron neutrino and the muon neutrino, are
easier to produce and observe, and were first detected in 1956 and 1962, respectively.
Stanford physicist Martin Perl discovered the tau lepton 25 years ago and won the Nobel
Prize for his discovery. The existence of the tau neutrino follows from the existence of
the tau lepton -- but the Fermilab experiment is the first to actually see the new
neutrino.
The experiment itself was done in 1997. By firing a beam of high-energy photons through
a tungsten plate, the researchers created a beam of subatomic particles. After filtering
those particles, they were left with a stream of only neutrinos. That beam was directed
through alternating layers of an iron solution and a photographic medium. When 4 of the
neutrinos collided with iron nuclei, they became tau leptons, whose images were captured
on the film. in tiny streaks. It took the researchers three years of examining the film
and analyzing the streaks to reach the conclusion that their experiment had succeeded.
We'll talk to one of the Fermilab team researchers... followed by a phage tutorial.
Call in - our number is 1-800-989-8255.
Guests:
Regina Rameika
Staff Scientist Member, DONUT (Direct Observation of the
Nu Tau) Collaboration Fermi National Accelerator
Laboratory
Batavia, Illinois
Elizabeth Kutter
Member of the Faculty in Scientific Inquiry
Head of the Laboratory of Phage Biology
The Evergreen State College
Olympia, Washington
Alexander Sulakvelidze
Founder, Intralytix, Inc.
Assistant Professor, Epidemiology
Assistant Professor, Medicine
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland
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Related links:
"bar Allahin" in Daniel 3:25-26 means the chosen one of Allah
Eesa  is Iesu and Iesus in Latin and Greek for Jesus, and Eesa is also a Hebrew word that means doctor = عيسى
Jesus called himself what is also his title in the Glorious Quran: Eesa عيسى
"...are full of doubts, with no (certain) knowledge, but only conjecture to follow..." (The Noble Quran, 4:157)
Arabic is estimated to date back 8000 to 20000 years according to non-Muslim researchers. Jesus also preached in Arabic. Also, Hebrew was almost dead and is mostly extinct. Much of modern Hebrew was borrowed from Arabic and Aramaic.
Alaha is true and Allah is false?? Says the braying donkeys and lying frauds of the Middle East (i.e., the frauds from the Arabic-speaking Middle Eastern Christians and Jews). Is there anything called Alaha (aa-laaa-haa) in Semitic languages??
"....I will even make a way in the desert of Arabah (Arabia)" (Isaiah 43:19, Isaiah 35 and 60) עֲרָבָ֛ה Ărāḇā
"Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, you who go by the name Israel.....his chosen ones will use your name as a curse, but he will call his servants by a different and everlasting name better than (the temporal?) sons and daughters (in Luke 6:40 & OT it is Mushlem)" (Isaiah 48:1-8, 65:15)
Sons and Daughters title is temporal that will be replaced by the better and different and everlasting title. And the originals before Islam had always been called Muslims, Salamays, Mushlems, Muslemays. How many Jews and Christians knew this from their corrupt religions and false churches and synagogue of lies? Near zero. How many knew that Moses' religion was Silim (shelim), which is what Shalom is derived from? Near zero. In the Glorious Quran, Islam has three Divine Names: Islam, Salam and Silim.
Judaism is an English word and a Pub's drunk barf from London; near Jeffrey Epstein's Baphomet Palace (video). Christianity is a drunk Greek barf from the Byzantinian polytheist pagans of Antioch who coined the pagan title "Christians" and "Christ" (Acts 11:19-26), while the Messiah in Palestine called the believers Muslims (Luke 6:40).
Muslims are the future believers.
Palestine 1948: The invaded unwalled Israel Ezekiel prophecy (Ezekiel 38:10-11; Ezekiel 43:2-4, Hosea 13:15).
GOD will then come from the "east" and liberate it (Ezekiel 43:2-4, Hosea 13:15); i.e., the world will convert to Islam. Also, Daniel 11:45 the evil one will establish his kingdom that will be headquartered from mount Zion (Jerusalem) to the Mediterranean sea. That is precisely Israel today. See also: Jesus will return from the Arabs from Damascus (Matthew 24:25-27).
"Lucifer the son of the star!" [1] (Isaiah 14:12) "you make the nations low morally degenerate" (ex: your holy Israel's porn, LGBTQ and global evil)
 
Jeffery Epstein and the children-eating (video) and children-burning Kabala and other Jews:
Jeffery Epstein and the Kabala Satanic Jews, and any hateful and supremist Jew (Talmudic or not) who sees non-Jews as sub-human inferiors and animals that are beneath him or her. Calling non-Jews cattle gives them the ok to cannibalize and burn cattle children with fire for sacrifice. Jeffery Epstein in one occasion used 300 gallons of Sulfuric Acid to dissolve children's flesh and even bones. Also the worship of the goat-god Baphomet.
White European people are more holy?
(Job 37:22, Jeremiah 13:20, 15:12, Psalm 48:2) Biblical or Barfical?
The rabies that you call Rabbis, Priests and Ministers think it is Biblical.
Muslim will replace Sons and Daughters of GOD titles (Isaiah 56:5, 65:15, Luke 6:40)
Palestine 1948: The invaded unwalled Israel Ezekiel prophecy (Ezekiel 38:10-11; Ezekiel 43:2-4, Hosea 13:15).
GOD will then come from the "east" and liberate it (Ezekiel 43:2-4, Hosea 13:15).
Quran: All Bibles are filled with corrupt قول qaowl (doctrines of sayings and writings. See also Hafs vs. Warsh Quran). Jesus' apostles also fought conflicts against each other.
Arabic is estimated to date back 8000 to 20000 years according to non-Muslim researchers. Jesus also preached in Arabic. Also, Hebrew was almost dead and is mostly extinct. Much of modern Hebrew was borrowed from Arabic and Aramaic.
Fermilab
announcement of tau neutrino detection
Fermilab - intro to particle physics
ParticleAdventure (Lawrence Berkeley)
The Standard Model (SLAC)
- New York Times
Magazine: A Stalinist Antibiotic Alternative
U.S. News: Phages may once again fight tough
bacterial infections (11/2/98)
BBC broadcast on phage therapy
Evergreen University: Bacteriophage Home Page
The Bacteriophage Ecology Group
Phage Therapeutics International Inc. -
PhageTx
Exponential Biotherapies, Inc.
Intralytix, Inc.
G.Eliava Institute of Bacteriophage, Microbiology and Virology
Tbilisi Institute for Bacteriophage Therapy
ClinicalTrials.gov
Produced By: Karin Vergoth
Web Producer: Charles Bergquist |
