New antibiotic made from stripers
 

PICIDINS.... a Newly discovered antibiotic discovered in striped bass may hold the answer for the ever increasing resistance now being seen in disease to antibiotics. Very interesting reading
when your very wide awake LOL i'm still waken up ....:smokin: :grins: :wid: :soon: :wave:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...ntibiotic.html

"Take two stripers and call me in the morning." :hihi:

Thats either going to be really good for the striper population or really bad because there is a new reason to harvest them...

Stripers are cool:D

maybe they'll farm stripers rather than take them from the sea :huh: Well, it'll probably take years before that stuff hits the market so we're ok for now

probably find out they can only extract from big ass cows.

:( :( :eek: :eek:

i maybe incorrect but
 

i believe the antibiotic is found in the skin/scales region.... and perhaps skins will someday be recyclable :o) with things like SARS, mad cow disease ,anthrax,super flu , bird flu (even worse)
hepatitus,encephalitus, malaria ,west nile virus ect Scientists are scrambling to come up with a whole new range of antibiotic like drugs to have at their disposal in the new age of bioterrorism and ever increasingly potent strains of FLESH EATING BACTERIA LOL OHHH Noooooo!:eek:

I thought the article said hybrid stripers and dont they already farm them?

hmm...definitely sounds like "deep blue sea" again...

i think jenn is correct
 

wipe out the wipers for the sake of medicine:af:

Antibiotics can be grown in labs. They do not need the original host to grow them.

Helloooooo JayR:D

Hey Pal :wave:

I believe that they use to raise them up in Sunderland Ma. I remeber an artical in the local paper a few years back about an aquaiculture farm that was raising striped bass.

They can't get it sooner enough.. Notaro has that nasty infection and this'll make him happy to hear from his doctor... "catch two stripers, and call me in the morning"