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How Could Gusher-Like HoneyPot Ants Help Develop New Antibiotics?

Honey from the Australian honeypot ant (Camponotus inflatus) may have medicinal properties that fight infection. While this has been known among Australia’s indigenous peoples for thousands of years, Western science has now formally studied the organic substance’s antimicrobial properties in a recent study published in PeerJ. The interest in using…
bubmag
July 31, 2023
Antibiotics

A Failed Antibiotic: The Unexpected Weed Killer of the Future

Scientists at the University of Adelaide have repurposed a failed tuberculosis antibiotic as a potent herbicide capable of tackling two invasive weeds prevalent in Australia without harming human or bacterial cells. This approach, involving structural modifications of the molecule to block weed growth, could revolutionize herbicide development and provide a…
bubmag
July 19, 2023
Antibiotics

The Key to Fighting Antimicrobial Resistance? Dollars, Experts Say

The U.S. cannot begin to tackle the problem of antimicrobial resistance without first changing the way antibiotics are reimbursed, experts argued during a Senate hearing on Tuesday. "Antibiotics ... are curative life-saving drugs," said Helen Boucher, MD, of Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, who spoke on behalf of…
bubmag
July 12, 2023
Antibiotics

AI Could Quickly Screen Thousands of Antibiotics to Tackle Superbugs

Developing new antibiotics presents a complicated challenge, but scientists are now using artificial intelligence to design new drugs to address the problem. In May researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and McMaster University published a study on their use of an AI algorithm to identify an antibiotic that can…
bubmag
July 11, 2023