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posted by n1 on Wednesday August 10 2016, @03:28AM   Printer-friendly
from the cash-only dept.

Three young scientists thing they have a way to defeat antibiotic resistance:

Three college-age scientists think they know how to solve a huge problem facing medicine. They think they've found a way to overcome antibiotic resistance. Many of the most powerful antibiotics have lost their efficacy against dangerous bacteria, so finding new antibiotics is a priority. It's too soon to say for sure if the young researchers are right, but if gumption and enthusiasm count for anything, they stand a fighting chance.

[...] Last October, Stanford launched a competition for students interested in developing solutions for big problems in health care. Not just theoretical solutions, but practical, patentable solutions that could lead to real products. The three young scientists thought they had figured out a way to make a set of proteins that would kill antibiotic resistant bacteria. They convinced a jury of Stanford faculty, biotech types and investors that they were onto something, and got $10,000 to develop their idea.

[...] "The way that our proteins operate, that if the bacteria evolve resistance to them, actually the bacteria can no longer live anymore," says Rosenthal. "We target something that's essential to bacterial survival." Bacteria have managed to evolve a way around even the most sophisticated attempts to kill them, so I was curious to know more about how the proteins these young inventors say they've found worked. "We're not able to disclose, unfortunately," says Filsinger Interrante. It's their intellectual property, she explains, that they hope will attract investors. "We think that our protein has the potential to target very dangerous, multidrug-resistant bacteria."

Peer review, meet news review.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 10 2016, @07:28AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 10 2016, @07:28AM (#386156)

    Right guys so, let's make a condom... wait no, an ANTIBIOTIC that changes color if you have an STD.... wait no, that changes color if your have an INFECTION. We better patent this shit NOW dudes and wait for the cash to roll in.

    3) ???
    4) Profit.

  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by anubi on Wednesday August 10 2016, @07:50AM

    by anubi (2828) on Wednesday August 10 2016, @07:50AM (#386168) Journal

    Just *claim* you have you have the "magic cure".

    Hide behind "intellectual property rights" to avoid demonstrating anything.

    Hide behind "hold harmless" clauses to legally protect yourself from fraud if your thing does NOT work.

    Insist on being paid before you reveal.

    Now, sell your pig-in-a-poke to an investment group.

    --
    "Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 10 2016, @12:36PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 10 2016, @12:36PM (#386233)

      Elizabeth Holmes, is that you?

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 10 2016, @01:28PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 10 2016, @01:28PM (#386246)

        Let me see if I've correctly identified the ??? part of the usual get rich formula.

        1. Claim to invent a wonder drug, wonder diagnostic, or cold fusion and hide from scrutiny behind imaginary property laws.
        2. Sell it to an investment group.
        3. Pay some small fines and take a 2 year hiatus when it doesn't work.
        4. Profit! (And bask in articles about being the world's youngest female billionaire.)

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 10 2016, @02:08PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 10 2016, @02:08PM (#386263)

      n/t

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 10 2016, @08:57PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 10 2016, @08:57PM (#386387)

      Expect to hear from our lawyers. That is our patented business process.