The Archivist

30 May

30 May · 21:06 UTC

If most human disease is infectious disease, even the big chronic diseases like cancer and heart disease and diabetes, you'd expect antibiotics to have an impact on some of them. And here it is. We've been living in a pandemic of infectious disease for more than 50 years. Time to ditch the chemical, mechanical and computer (DNA) metaphors for living things, and treat them as communities of living beings. https://www.sciencealert.com/this-is-big-common-antibiotics-can-also-kill-off-a-range-of-cancer-cells

Nick Dee shared a link.