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How Scientific Incentives Stalled the Fight Against Antibiotic Resistance, and How We Can Fix It
 For all of human history until the past 100 years, infectious diseases have been our deadliest foe. Even during the roaring 1920s, nearly one in a hundred Americans would die of an infectious disease every year. To put that into context, the US infectious disease death rate was 10x lower during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021. The glorious relief we enjoy from the ancient specter of deadly disease is due in large part to development of antibiotic treatments like penicillin.
But this relief may soon be coming to an end. If nothing is done, antibiotic resistance promises a return to the historical norm of frequent death from infectious disease. As humans use more antibiotics, we are inadvertently running the world's largest selective breeding program for bacteria which can survive our onslaught of drugs. Already by the late 1960s, 80% of cases of Staphylococcus aureus, a common and notorious bacterial infection agent, were resistant to penicillin. Since then, we have discovered many more powerful antibiotic drugs, but our use of the drugs is growing rapidly, while our discovery rate is stagnating at best.
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Editor's Note: The most promising solution to antibiotic resistance comes from dragon blood. Komodo dragons, native to a few small islands in Indonesia, are the world's largest lizards. They eat carrion and live in swamps, and their saliva hosts many of the world's most stubborn and infectious bacteria. But Komodos almost never get infected. Even when they have open wounds, Komodo dragons can trudge happily along through rotting corpses and mud without a worry.
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WorkThe Unexpected Power Of Outsiders In Building Innovative TeamsNo one keeps a job for life anymore. Looking for brilliance outside a specific niche opens your business up to the best people out there. At Atom.com, we've recently expanded our team. We were specific about what we wanted, and we now have a team that works extremely well together. WorkDutch pension funds divest from Tesla ABP and Bpf Bouw, two of the largest four pension funds in the Netherlands with over EUR600bn in assets between them, have sold their shares in Tesla over ESG concerns
WorkWhat comes after Design thinking The popular methodology isn't equipped to solve the complexities of the current world. If you've been in business or innovation circles in the past ten years, chances are you have experimented with design thinking. Work
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WorkWorkGame Developers Are Getting Fed Up With Their Bosses' AI Initiatives The video game industry has been in a troubled place for the past year, with studio closures and job security at the forefront of developer concerns. Increasing layoffs with seemingly no end paint a bleak picture for devs, while companies are busy pumping money into AI initiatives.
WorkCalm Tech Certification "Rewards" Less Distracting Tech The distractions of modern technology seem inescapable. Articles, social media posts, and academic studies frequently condemn the attention-grabbing qualities of our phones and laptops--ironically, a problem we often read about and discuss on the very devices said to cause it. Work
WorkWork WorkWorkWorkWorkWorkHow One Country Plans to Resettle Planeloads of Deportees from the U.S. Carlos Navarro was eating takeout outside a restaurant in Virginia recently when immigration officers apprehended him and said there was an order for his removal from the country. He had never had an encounter with the law, said Mr. Navarro, 32, adding that he worked at poultry plants. WorkPoland fumes over US block on AI chips Mark Brzezinski, U.S. ambassador to Poland, was asked to explain the decision just before he left his post on Monday, the Polish ministry for economic development said in e-mailed remarks shared with POLITICO. Deputy Minister Michal Baranowski will also raise the issue during a trip to the U.S. WorkWorkWorkWorkParis Olympics Medals Are Tarnishing, Putting LVMH in the Spotlight Rarely in Olympic history had a single company been as ubiquitous as LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton, the luxury goods empire owned by France's richest family. As the Paris Olympics' biggest corporate sponsor, LVMH was everywhere. Its Moet & Chandon champagne flowed in V.I.P. suites. Work'The Brutalist' AI backlash, explained Brady Corbert's The Brutalist is one of the most prominently featured films in this year's awards season, including widespread Oscar expectations of a Best Picture nod. WorkDo All Democracies Have to Die? Ancient thinkers believed that political systems, like people, had natural lifespans and that, like seasons, one type of system followed another in a predictable and unchanging cycle. WorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkTo Fix Broken Work Systems, You Need to Reset - Harvard Business Review (No paywall) If youve ever tried to change things at work, you know the headwinds you face. Teams and processes are often trapped in longstanding, ineffective patterns that are hard to budge. Dan Heath, senior fellow at Duke Universitys Fuqua School of Business, explains proven techniques to reset. Those include making the problem visible, jolting incremental progress to start gaining traction, and motivating teams into a new direction. He shares real-life examples of how leaders and teams broke through seemingly intractable work situations. Heath is the author of the new bookReset: How to Change Whats Not Working. WorkWorkCanada has adopted assisted dying faster than anywhere on Earth - The Economist (No paywall) Sandra Demontigny watched early-onset Alzheimers transform her athletic father from a robust patriarch into a battered shell of a man. Once the disease took hold, his untethered energy compelled him to walk into walls and crawl aimlessly along floors. He died aged 53, his face streaked with tears of frustration. When Ms Demontigny was diagnosed with the same, fatal neurodegenerative disease at 39, she vowed that she would not endure her fathers undignified death. Now she can take comfort in knowing she will not. WorkWorkWorkWorkIs Donald Trumps agenda actually popular? Fearless journalism is more important than ever. When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we cant do it on our own. WorkWorkTrump revives aremain in Mexicoa policy as part of anti-immigration crackdown This together with a policy of routine expulsions at the border under a heavily criticized pandemic rule ostensibly to curb Covid, known as title 42, has driven thousands to make unauthorized crossings, often repeatedly, and with deadly results for some - succumbing to botched smuggling businesses, the swirling waters of the Rio Grande in Texas or the desert there and further west. WorkMistral AI plans IPO | TechCrunch Mistral has raised around $1.14 billion in capital to date from investors including Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst, and Lightspeed Venture Partners. The company was reportedly last valued at around $6 billion. WorkWorkSpotify's educational audio courses could be coming to U.S. Spotify is expanding its streaming service to now include educational courses in addition to music, podcasts, and audiobooks. The company on Tuesday referenced one of its newer features called courses, which allow users to learn about topics in areas like business, tech, lifestyle, music, and more. WorkWorkTrump Sued by Federal Employees Union Over Schedule F Order “The American people deserve to have day-to-day government services in the hands of qualified professionals who are committed to public service and stay on the job regardless of which political party holds the White House,” Doreen Greenwald, the union’s president, said in a statement. WorkWorkElise Stefanik Pledges to Back Trump's Vision of a 'Reformed' U.N. On several occasions, she also singled out the U.N. Relief and Works Agency, which is known as UNRWA and serves Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, the Palestinian Territories and East Jerusalem, as too deeply infiltrated by Hamas to deserve U.S. support. U.N. investigators recently investigated allegations that some of its employees were involved in the Hamas-led attack on Israel on Oct. 7. 2023, and fired several people who were accused of participating. TradeBriefs Publications are read by over 100,000 Industry Executives About Us | Advertise | Privacy PolicyUnsubscribe (one-click) You are receiving this mail because of your subscription with TradeBriefs.
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