<story><title>Researchers have found that micro-spikes etched into titanium rupture microbes</title><url>https://newatlas.com/medical/titanium-spikes-effective-drug-free-kill-antibiotic-resistant-superbugs/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>noodlesUK</author><text>I’m no expert in this field, so my question might be completely nonsensical.&lt;p&gt;If this surface treatment is physically destructive to bacteria, is it also damaging to the human cells it is trying to sit next to after implantation?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tokai</author><text>All types of human cells are much larger than Candida, up to several orders of magnitude. If the effect that destroys the cell is indeed some kind of stretching, it would make sense if the titanium surface doesn&amp;#x27;t have an effect on humans cells.</text></comment>
<story><title>Researchers have found that micro-spikes etched into titanium rupture microbes</title><url>https://newatlas.com/medical/titanium-spikes-effective-drug-free-kill-antibiotic-resistant-superbugs/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>noodlesUK</author><text>I’m no expert in this field, so my question might be completely nonsensical.&lt;p&gt;If this surface treatment is physically destructive to bacteria, is it also damaging to the human cells it is trying to sit next to after implantation?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>helpfulContrib</author><text>This material would be most usefully applied in a hospital environment, where extremophiles are capable of adapting to the hostility they normally encounter, and is rather a leap beyond the existing strategies for containment.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t think it has direct application to the human biome; more as a protective measure to stop the superbugs.</text></comment>