Antibiotics

A woman has her body temperature checked amid the coronavirus outbreak. AP Photo/Vincent Thian Most cases of the new coronavirus are mild, but about 20% of patients either have severe cases of disease or become critically ill.A fever is the most common symptom.Here's how the symptoms progress day by day…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain A special issue of Animal Health Research Reviews turns the spotlight on the science underlying this growing crisis—looking at the evidence base for using antibiotics to prevent illness in beef and dairy cattle, swine, and broiler poultry. The scientists who introduce the collection—from the University of…

Image copyright Getty Images In a world first, scientists have discovered a new type of antibiotic using artificial intelligence (AI). It has been heralded by experts as a major breakthrough in the fight against the growing problem of drug resistance. A powerful algorithm was used to analyse more than one…

Meet halicin, picked by a neural network and whimsically named after the HAL 9000 bot Although new strains of antibiotics are increasingly difficult to develop, scientists have done just that, with the help of a neural network. The drug – named halicin as a hat tip to HAL 9000, the…

Using a machine-learning algorithm, MIT researchers have identified a powerful new antibiotic compound. In laboratory tests, the drug killed many of the world's most problematic disease-causing bacteria, including some strains that are resistant to all known antibiotics. It also cleared infections in two different mouse models. The computer model, which…

Two particularly tenacious species of bacteria have colonized the potable water dispenser aboard the International Space Station (ISS), but a new study suggests that they are no more dangerous than closely related strains on Earth. Aubrie O'Rourke of the J. Craig Venter Institute and colleagues report these findings in a…

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Image copyright AFP Image caption Fierce fires have burned thousands of acres of California Smoke from wildfires may have long-term health effects, according to US research on juvenile monkeys.An analysis shows that their immune systems were lower than normal, 12 years after they were naturally exposed to wildfire smoke.There are…

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There's no daily recommended dose of probiotics because researchers are still studying which strains of probiotics help and how much you need.Many over-the-counter probiotic products contain a range of 1 to 10 billion colony forming units (CFUs).The World Health Organization says some products are effective at levels below 1 billion…