I might’ve missed this, but what were your negative and positive controls, and did comparing the experimental results to those of the controls prove the results to be statistically significant?
Great question! Ampicillin was the positive control, because it’s a known antibiotic, while DMSO was the negative control because we dissolved the nanoparticles in that solution. A hit was determined by something outside of the range of two standard deviations of the negative control, which both silver and palladium nanoparticles were!
The palladium nanoparticles were a solid particle, kind of like sand, that we placed in a solution of DMSO, thus the samples tested were not pure palladium, but were compared to DMSO as a negative control.
It’s hard to say without being speculative. Most of the research on nanoparticle’s antibiotic properties have emerged in the last 3-4 years, so the topic is not super well researched. This experiment has validated a lot of that data, but a nanoparticle antibiotic in animal/clinical trials has not yet occurred, to my knowledge. Until it reaches that stage, it’s hard to say.
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I might’ve missed this, but what were your negative and positive controls, and did comparing the experimental results to those of the controls prove the results to be statistically significant?
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Great question! Ampicillin was the positive control, because it’s a known antibiotic, while DMSO was the negative control because we dissolved the nanoparticles in that solution. A hit was determined by something outside of the range of two standard deviations of the negative control, which both silver and palladium nanoparticles were!
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What chemical state were the metals in when you used them for experiments? Were their solutions pure?
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The palladium nanoparticles were a solid particle, kind of like sand, that we placed in a solution of DMSO, thus the samples tested were not pure palladium, but were compared to DMSO as a negative control.
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Great presentation! Do you think palladium will someday become an antibiotic given how successful the results were for it?
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It’s hard to say without being speculative. Most of the research on nanoparticle’s antibiotic properties have emerged in the last 3-4 years, so the topic is not super well researched. This experiment has validated a lot of that data, but a nanoparticle antibiotic in animal/clinical trials has not yet occurred, to my knowledge. Until it reaches that stage, it’s hard to say.
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Great presentation! Do you think Palladium will be used as an antibiotic someday soon given how effective the results were when testing it?
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