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1 .This is Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This'll just take a minute.
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2 .If you're plagued by werewolves, reach for the silver.
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3 .And more mundane health problems may also respond well to the silver solution.
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4 .Because a new study shows that microbes exposed to a pinch of the precious metal become more vulnerable to antibiotic attack.
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5 .The research is in the journal Science Translational Medicine.
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6 .Silver's long been a medical treatment.
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7 .Hippocrates himself applied it to open wounds.
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8 .But its use as a cure for contagion fell by the wayside with the discovery of penicillin, and the source of its bug-blasting abilities remained a mystery.
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9 .Until now.
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10 .Researchers treated E.coli bacteria with small amounts of silver.
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11 .They found that the metal messes with the bugs' proteins, wreaking havoc on their metabolism.
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12 .It also generates reactive chemicals that attack the microbes from within.
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13 .All this weakens the bacteria's defenses, which allows other, more conventional antibiotics to slip in and do their work.
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14 .Even killing microbes that were formerly antibiotic resistant.
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15 .Mice with fatal infections were also saved with a silver and antibiotic combo, and at doses that did the sick rodents no harm.
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16 .This silver was delivered by injection.
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17 .For werewolves, the preferred silver delivery system is still the bullet.
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18 .Thanks for the minute, for Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin.
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