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Airbnb provides free apartments for Ukrainian refugees
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Good news: Airbnb wants to provide apartments for refugees from Ukraine +++ First successes in research on antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
The best news in the BRIGITTE Good News Ticker for March 2022
The news often shows the horrors of this world – currently, for example, the corona pandemic and the Ukraine war. But there are not only the dark sides, our world has so much beauty in store for us. We want to celebrate the little everyday things and give you something positive to take with you. It’s time for good news – if not now, then when?
March 2, 2022
Airbnb wants to provide apartments for refugees from Ukraine
Travel platform Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky and his co-founders Joe Gebbia and Nathan Blecharczyk announced on February 28, 2022 that they intend to provide free accommodation for up to 100,000 refugees via their platform. This accommodation should be provided primarily in those countries where most of the refugees arrive. They have now initially offered Poland, Hungary, Germany and Romania cooperation.
The campaign is to be financed in three ways: funds from the listed company itself, donations from the Airbnb.org Refugee Fund and the hosts involved. The latter can find out how they can take part in the campaign at Airbnb.org.
March 1, 2022
First successes in research on antibiotic-resistant bacteria
Bacteria: They are barely visible but can cause significant damage. Again and again we hear about antibiotic-resistant pathogens, against which we humans can hardly do anything. The prognosis: by 2050 superbugs will be responsible for ten million deaths a year worldwide. A prime example of evolution. Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have found a new way to combat these superbugs. They targeted a specific protein that the pathogens use to develop resistance.
The research team chose the approach of preventing the production of resistance proteins from the outset. A very specific protein is suppressed by a folding process – the so-called DsbA. This enabled the team to remove resistance to existing antibiotics. This method worked for different bacteria. These include E-coli, K. pneumoniae and P. aeruginosa. These are collectively responsible for a large proportion of all superbacterial infections.
While the chemicals the researchers used to disable the resistant protein cannot be used safely in humans, they were able to show that the mechanism works.
Sources used: trendsderzukunft.de, trendingtopics.eu