The AncientBiotics Project
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Health-Medical Documentary hosted by Freya Harrison and Christina Lee and Steve Diggle, published by Nottingham University in 2015 - English narration
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AncientBiotics - a medieval remedy for modern day superbugs? A one thousand year old Anglo-Saxon remedy for eye infections which originates from a manuscript in the British Library has been found to kill the modern-day superbug MRSA in an unusual research collaboration at The University of Nottingham. Dr Christina Lee, an Anglo-Saxon expert from the School of English has enlisted the help of microbiologists from University’s Centre for Biomolecular Sciences to recreate a 10th century potion for eye infections from Bald’s Leechbook an Old English leatherbound volume in the British Library, to see if it really works as an antibacterial remedy. The Leechbook is widely thought of as one of the earliest known medical textbooks and contains Anglo-Saxon medical advice and recipes for medicines, salves and treatments. Early results on the 'potion', tested in vitro at Nottingham and backed up by mouse model tests at a university in the United States, are, in the words of the US collaborator, “astonishing”. The solution has had remarkable effects on Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) which is one of the most antibiotic-resistant bugs costing modern health services billions.
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- Video Codec: x264 CABAC High@L4.1
- Video Bitrate: CRF 24 (~1796Kbps)
- Video Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Video Resolution: 1920x1080
- Frame Rate: 25 FPS
- Audio Codec: AAC-LC
- Audio Bitrate: 192Kbps CBR 44.1KHz
- Audio Channels: 2
- Run-Time: 7 mins
- Number of Parts: 1
- Part Size: 107 MB
- Source: Webrip
- Encoded by: JungleBoy
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