LIFESCI 2X03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Bright-Field Microscopy, Fluorescence Microscope, Electron Microscope
14 Jan 2019
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Breakneck speed of 5. 2 microns per minute: 0. 000000312 km/hour, fast from cellular perspective. You are never alone: we play host to perhaps 10x as many bacterial cells as eukaryotic cells (100 trillion, bringing the total number of cells in body to approx. 110 trillion: eukaryotic cells (plant and animal cells, prokaryotic cells (bacterial cells) Where do they come from: babies delivered by c-section had different gut microbes than those delivered vaginally. Colistin is a powerful drug used to defeat bacteria and is put in animals to protect animals. It was saved as a last case of drugs, but since they put it in animals, humans developed a resistance to the colistin: we need to find more antibodies in the future. Fighting the bacteria with bacteria- the beneficial: dr. ben eiseman, practicing and academic surgeon in denver, colorado. In 1958, was faced with 4 patients with deadly pseudomembranous colitis.
