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17 comments:
I thought this article was very interesting because it is hard to imagin the simple sponge as being a possible great asset to are medical technology
I think that this article was really interesting. I know how annoying and painful whooping cough can be because I have had it twice. Now that sponges might be able to help us fight back against these bacteria, they can really benefit humans.
This discovery is very important for medical reasons. Maybe by adding this into other medicines, they can make them stronger. Also, they could make super charged antibacterial medicines. It's amazing that they only discovered this now and not in the past!
I liked this article because i think that it will help advance our medical world. i never thought that a simple sponge would be able to fight off bacteria. I allllllllways get sick, and trust me, it's no fun. I think it would be great to help advance medical technology.
I never thought that a sponge could be so amazing. I wonder if only certain kinds of sponges can help. If we can learn more about how ageliferin works, then we can use it to help all over the world. I notice that in the word ageliferin has the words "age" and "life". Coincidence?
This article was very interesting and I was very surprised that sponges have a chemical in them that can help us fight bacteria that cause the nastiest ailments such as whooping cough, ear infections, and food poisoning. I also wonder whether the chemical can be found in other places. Can it be reproduced by us?
I really thought this article was REALLY fun and interesting because with this new discovery of ageliferin, thousands of lives can be saved from bacteria. I can't wait until they find out if ageliferin works on other bacteria...
It's pretty hard to believe that one sponge could be the result of a huge medical breakthrough. I never really thought of sponges contributing anything to humans until now. If the chemical does work outside the lab, it could really benefit mankind. I usually get a really bad cough around February, and it really annoys me. If this stuff works, no more coughing for me!
This could really help out the medical world! When I get sick, I get really sick, and this could really help people to get better.
That is definitely interesting! I wonder how sponges, the first form of life, generated that chemical which helps us, but somehow evolved out of us over time. It would've been better if it had stayed! Also, I hope they don't use animals to test algeliferin, that would be bad. : (
Interesting!
I thought that this article was truly amazing because it is difficult to think that something so simple like a sponge could really help us with killing such tough bacteria. I always thought that sponges were just useless animals under the sea sitting there.
This should be used in AIDS and cancer cures! Though I do have a question that might make this ineffective: this might not work if an extremophile somehow manages to manifest itself in a human. Since it can survive in extremities, it might not be quite as effective. This is very interesting, though.
Wow! This article was quite amazing! I never knew that there was a chemical called ageliferin that could help fight the bacteria. This is could be an amazing breakthrough in medical science. I hope that scientists will be able to identify how it works, and more importantly, if it will work properly with very few side effects on humans!
I really like sponges. When i learned about them in room 4 I thought that they were exotic creatures that should be studied a whole lot more. Now that I hear that they can help mankind i am so excited.
This article was pretty amazing. To think one of the most innocent creatures living under the sea can help us survive in our everyday world! Although, for the same reason, I thought this article was very strange. I think it would be great for us to improve the power of our antibiotics, yet it may be years ahead of us.
This article was poorly written and not at all informative. This is because they only spent a paragraph or two explaining the actual point of the article. They spent the majority of the time explaining boring things like what sponges are. They didn't say anything about ageliferin does or how it works at all. After finishing the article, the only things I knew about ageliferin were that it came off of a sponge and that it could be used as an atibiotic.
That is pretty cool. BUT, they didn't test the bacteria against only the antibiotics in a separate petri dish, and a control in other one to compare the effects.
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