{"id":1113,"date":"2012-01-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2018\/02\/01\/innovation-anthology-446\/"},"modified":"2018-02-25T21:30:31","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T21:30:31","slug":"innovation-anthology-446","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2012\/01\/10\/innovation-anthology-446\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation Anthology #446:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/Innovation Anthology 446.mp3\">Download MP3 Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>  Bacteria can live as single cells or they can cluster into slimy colonies called <strong>biofilms.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p> Biofilms are responsible for about <strong>80 percent of infections,<\/strong> including hospital superbugs that are highly resistant to antibiotics. <\/p>\n<p> Edmonton company<strong> Innovotech<\/strong> specializes in biofilms and is developing alternate killer treatments based on <strong>silver.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p> But as <strong>Dr. Patricia Nadworny <\/strong>explains, not just any silver.     Dr. Nadworny is an industry associate funded through Alberta Innovates Technology Futures. <\/p>\n<p><strong> DR. PATRICIA NADWORNY:<\/strong><em> If you took the silver that&rsquo;s in say jewelry which is metallic silver and has no charge, it will not have any impact on bacteria at all.   The other problem is that silver can often be inactivated by bodily fluids and so on.  And so again it&rsquo;s not available to kill the bacteria.       And so the products we&rsquo;re working on we&rsquo;re really excited about because it has a higher charge and so it&rsquo;s more reactive with bacteria but at the same time we&rsquo;ve developed formulations that actually are not readily inactivated by bodily fluids.  <\/em> <\/p>\n<p> According to Dr. Patricia Nadworny, Innovotech&rsquo;s silver technology holds promise for applications in agriculture and medicine. <\/p>\n<p><strong><em> Thanks today to Alberta Innovates Technology Futures<\/em> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <strong>FOR INNOVATION ANTHOLOGY<br \/> I&rsquo;M CHERYL CROUCHER<\/strong> <\/p>\n<h2>Guest<\/h2>\n<h3> , <\/h3>\n<h4>, , , , <\/h4>\n<h2>Sponsor<\/h2>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.albertatechfutures.ca\">Alberta Innovates Technology Futures<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Alberta Innovates launched its consolidation on November 1, 2016<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"et_pb_module et-waypoint et_pb_image et_pb_animation_off et_pb_image_5 et_always_center_on_mobile et_pb_image_sticky et-animated\"> \t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/albertainnovates.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/tech_futures_v2_icon.png\" \/> \t\t\t \t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><strong>780-450-5111<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.albertatechfutures.ca\/\">albertatechfutures.ca<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>250 Karl Clark Road,<br \/>Edmonton, Alberta, Canada<br \/>T6N 1E4<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/AI_Tech_RGB_smallForWeb.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Program Date:<\/strong>\u00a02012-01-10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biofilms<\/strong> are responsible for about 80 percent of infections, including hospital superbugs that are highly resistant to antibiotics.  Edmonton company <strong>Innovotech<\/strong> specializes in biofilms and is developing alternate killer treatments based on <strong>silver.<\/strong>   But not just any silver. <strong> Dr. Patricia Nadworny<\/strong>, an AITF industry associate at Innovotech, explains. <em> (Alberta Innovates Technology Futures)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1114,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,2,31,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alberta-innovates-technology-futures","category-health-and-medicine","category-life-sciences","category-women-in-science","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/446patricia_nadworny.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1113"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4764,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113\/revisions\/4764"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}