To handle these antibiotics, microbes have evolved resistance genes. Microbes appear to use antibiotics as a form of communication. These antibiotic resistance genes appeared to be ancient and to pre-date human antibiotic use. Antibiotic resistance genes were everywhere, including in soils from the Arctic, the Antarctic, and other areas that had never received anthropogenic antibiotic exposure. While the technique doesn’t allow researchers to identify individual microbes, the DNA soil findings were nonetheless astounding. Metagenomics can assess the genetic material present in environments. This changed once scientists began using a new technology called metagenomics to extract DNA directly from the soil. Research on DNA in the soil is shedding light on the scope of the problem.įor decades, nobody knew what microbes existed in the soil, because most soil microbes couldn’t be cultured in laboratories. Those bacteria can be found in the vast quantities of human and animal feces modern civilization and agriculture produce-a waste stream that, when it mixes with soil, helps to spread antibiotic resistance to other microbes at alarming speed. Excessive antibiotic use in humans and animals has resulted in an increase in the number of resistant bacteria in the environment. Poop is spreading antimicrobial resistance. Current methods for managing and using agricultural manure-domesticated animals account for about 85 percent of the feces produced in a year-spread antimicrobial resistance genes, contaminate crops and waterways with microbes, and produce potent greenhouse gas emissions such as methane and nitrous oxide. Soils need the microbes and nutrients in manure to be healthy, but we’re not managing manure properly, and the mismanagement is causing serious environmental and health problems. The massive amount of human and animal excrement that we and our domesticated animals produce is changing the ecosystem of our planet in dangerous ways.Īll this poop has to go somewhere, and much of it gets spread on agricultural fields as fertilizer.
Hopefully we will see a full reveal and worldwide pricing next week.As Taro Gomi’s famous children’s book says, “All living things eat, so everyone poops.” Indeed, 7.6 billion humans and their domesticated animals are estimated to produce at least 4 trillion kilograms of poop each year-enough to fill approximately 1.6 million Olympic-sized swimming pools.
Pricing indications are provided by the retail listings.
The Polish language source mobimaniak included a few Cinebench benchmarks of the above processors. The Acer Predator Helios 500 laptops, as detailed by the Polish retailer, come with a choice of CPU as follows: The source says that many Coffee Lake H laptops like the Predator Helios 500, with up to six physical cores, will launch sometime next week.
This is a very powerful gaming laptop series and it will be coming equipped with a choice of Intel 8 th generation Core processor (Coffee Lake H series). Earlier this week a Polish retailer accidentally published some product pages detailing the new Acer Predator Helios 500 gaming laptops (via VideoCardz and since taken down).