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Local snowmobilers frustrated and worried with “inconsistencies” from Health Unit
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Parry Sound snowmobilers are frustrated and worried about the local Health Unit’s closure of the region’s trails.
Barrie Wilkinson, President of Parry Sound Snowmobile District 10, tells MyParrySoundNow; “It is frustrating because we have so few cases, and case numbers are looking good compared to provincial ones,”
“We see ourselves (Snowmobilers) as a fairly outdoor activity, and we are definitely frustrated by the fact that we are not able to get out there when some other amenities like the cross-country ski trails are open.” Wilkinson said, “It just doesn’t make a lot of sense to people in the snowmobiling community”
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Gene-editing produces tenfold increase in superbug slaying antibiotics
Scientists have used gene-editing advances to achieve a tenfold increase in the production of super-bug targeting formicamycin antibiotics.
The John Innes Centre researchers used the technology to create a new strain of Streptomyces formicae bacteria which over-produces the medically promising molecules.
Discovered within the last ten years, formicamycins have great potential because, under laboratory conditions, superbugs like MRSA do not become resistant to them.
However, Streptomyces formicae only produce the antibiotics in small quantities. This has made it difficult to scale up purification for further study and is an obstacle to the molecules being taken forward for clinical trials.