Moderna's Mysterious Medicines

"In a hot biotech venture market, Moderna Therapeutics is ablaze. Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and shrouded in secrecy, the startup claims to be developing a new class of drug that hacks the very operating system of life, turning human bodies into drug factories by directing cells to produce therapeutic proteins" 

VIDEO: "More than anything, the technology has led to questions: How will this new power affect humanity?"

     "In early April, experts at a military lab outside Washington intensified their search for evidence that: 

             a dangerous new biological threat had penetrated the nation's borders."

  'A slow catastrophe unfolds´ as the golden age of antibiotics comes to an end. 

    “It’s not apocalyptic until it is,”  said Peter Pitts, president of the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest 

     and former associate commissioner of the FDA. 

                        

THE SHOCK DOCTRINE 

By:  NAOMI KLEIN  Et al.

Part 5 introduces the "Disaster Capitalism Complex", a complex series of networks and influence employed by private companies that allows them to profit from disasters. She mirrors this new Disaster Capitalism Complex with the Military Industrial Complex and explains that both employ the blurring of the line between private and public, through tactics like the revolving door.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shock_Doctrine

Some bacteria naturally grow as filaments, e.g., members of the actinomycetes. 
Many others, e.g.,E. coli and B. subtilis, make filaments only when under stress — a fact that has been known for about one hundred years but is still a bit of a mystery.

"WHY DO BACTERIA FILAMENT"

by: Moselio (Elio) Schaechter & Roberto Kolter

Then and now: use of 16S rDNA gene sequencing for bacterial identification and discovery of novel bacteria in clinical microbiology laboratories

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Superbug known as ‘phantom menace’ on the rise in U.S  

                           




"Experts warned that the latest development was frightening."                                     

 "History shows that these mobile resistance genes can spread around the world quickly, silently riding in people, animals and food," said Lance Price, director of the Antibiotic Resistance Action Center at George Washington University's Milken Institute of Public Health, in a statement."