DISPENSARY CORNER 5 April 16
April 5, 2016
EVER wondered
what poop with
teeth and bones in
it would look like?
Well you can
now find out by visiting Britain’s
National Poo Museum at the Isle
of Wight Zoo.
The funky display features
actual faeces ranging from human
baby to lion, meerkat and fox;
with each dried sample carefully
encapsulated in a resin sphere
which can be illuminated by the
touch of a button.
Visitors to this not-so smelly
display can also look forward to
seeing fossilised specimens plus
learning “fun facts” about faeces
and retro toilets along the way.
SCIENTISTS at North Carolina
State University have genetically
modified the humble maggot,
making them secrete a human
growth hormone while they eat.
Created utilising green bottle
fly larvae, the new discovery
could help human wounds to heal
better and be used as a low-cost
treatment in countries where
incomes are low.
Maggots have been used for
centuries for healing, as they are
known to clean a wound by eating
the dead flesh surrounding it,
leaving healthy flesh intact.
Professor of entomology,
Max Scott, commented “a vast
majority of people with diabetes
live in low or middle-income
countries, with less access to
expensive treatment options.”
“We see this as a proof-of-principle
study for the further
development of engineered
strains that express a variety of
growth factors and anti-microbial
peptide,” he added.
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