So glad you reposted your questions, op!I saw your original post and went off looking ( sadly, fruitlessly) for a clip I saw a long time ago...I couldn't find it, but by then we had cycled through to a new post. The clip I was looking for to share with you was maybe around 2009-2011 (maybe), and I feel it was promoting a start up business, thus light on technical details, but still... The meat of the matter was that they were using fungi, type unspecified, to produce customised antibiotics/antivirals. A swab of goo from the ill person was swiped over the budding/nascent mushroom and presto! About 24 hours later the fungi had manufactured an effective antagonist to whatever ailed the patient, specific to the strain, or if multiple infections, then effective against all! What a thing! So simple to manage at a local level, even without high technology! Goatgirl
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Re: A village surgery lab c 1920, 1930?
Date: 2022-11-03 11:42 am (UTC)The clip I was looking for to share with you was maybe around 2009-2011 (maybe), and I feel it was promoting a start up business, thus light on technical details, but still...
The meat of the matter was that they were using fungi, type unspecified, to produce customised antibiotics/antivirals. A swab of goo from the ill person was swiped over the budding/nascent mushroom and presto! About 24 hours later the fungi had manufactured an effective antagonist to whatever ailed the patient, specific to the strain, or if multiple infections, then effective against all! What a thing! So simple to manage at a local level, even without high technology!
Goatgirl