{"id":305564,"date":"2017-04-27T23:56:41","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T22:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-healing-power-of-gold-and-silver\/"},"modified":"2017-04-27T23:56:41","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T22:56:41","slug":"the-healing-power-of-gold-and-silver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-healing-power-of-gold-and-silver\/","title":{"rendered":"The Healing Power of Gold and Silver"},"content":{"rendered":"
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There is healing power in gold<\/a> and silver<\/a>.\u00a0Both precious metals\u00a0serve as an investment as well as\u00a0money<\/a>. Gold and silver also\u00a0have technological applications. We recently reported that gold is the new green<\/a> with a growing number of environmental applications. Today, we focus on some of the amazing developments using gold and silver in healthcare applications.<\/p>\n

For centuries, silver has been used as an antibacterial agent and to fight infections. Today, scientists are using cutting-edge research techniques to study how exactly silver poisons pathogenic microbes.<\/p>\n

The work of scientists like Joe Lemiresuch from Calgary University is yielding new insights on how to create effective antimicrobials<\/a> and avoid the pitfalls of antimicrobial resistance.<\/p>\n

Time to buy old US gold coins<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cWith our enhanced mechanistic understanding of silver toxicity, we also aim to develop novel silver-based antimicrobial therapies, and potentially rejuvenate other antibiotic therapies that bacteria have come to resist, via silver-based co-treatment strategies.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Silver is already used to control bacteria in many clinical settings and is used in hundreds of antibacterial products. Corning has even developed a silver-based Antimicrobial Gorilla Glass<\/a>\u00a0that resists microbial growth. Gaining a deeper understanding of silver\u2019s antimicrobial properties will help scientists make even better use of the white metal\u2019s healing properties.<\/p>\n

To delve into silver\u2019s antibacterial process, Lemire and his team use a gene-editing platform that allows them to screen for and delete genes of specific resistant\u00a0bacterial species. Lemire said they have discovered numerous biological pathways involved in silver toxicity and some surprising ways bacteria avoid succumbing to silver poisoning. By…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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There is healing power in gold and silver.\u00a0Both precious metals\u00a0serve as an investment as well as\u00a0money. Gold and silver also\u00a0have technological applications. We recently reported that gold is the new green with a growing number of environmental applications. Today, we focus on some of the amazing developments using gold and silver in healthcare applications. For […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-305564","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}