SciShow: The Antibacterial Benefits of Wasp Venom

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Content of the Lesson: This week, scientists turned to an unlikely source to try to solve the problem of antibiotic resistance, and got a peek at the lifestyle of some of the very first mammals... by studying their teeth. Hosted by: Michael Aranda SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Bd_Tmprd, Harrison Mills, Jeffrey Mckishen, James Knight, Christoph Schwanke, Jacob, Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Eric Jensen, Lehel Kovacs, Adam Brainard, Greg, Ash, Sam Lutfi, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, charles george, Alex Hackman, Chris Peters, Kevin Bealer ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: Nobels: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2020/press-release/ https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2020/press-release/ https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2020/summary/ Wasps: https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/10/07/2012379117 https://www.eurekalert.org/emb_releases/2020-10/uops-pms100920.php https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/antibiotic-resistance Mammals: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18898-4 https://www.eurekalert.org/emb_releases/2020-10/uob-att100820.php https://www.britannica.com/science/cementum https://www.britannica.com/animal/Morganucodon https://www.britannica.com/animal/reptile/Growth-and-longevity Image Sources: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HCV_EM_picture_2.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vespula_flaviceps.jpg https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-18898-4#rightslink https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Human_tooth_diagram-en.svg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Morganucodon.jpg


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