Antibiotics

IMAGE: Imre Noth, MD, the chief of UVA Health's Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, says the large study of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis will still benefit efforts to battle the... view more  Credit: UVA Health Doctors have hoped that antibiotics could benefit patients with chronic lung diseases, but a new…

Overuse of antibiotics and superbugs could be worsening the Covid-19 pandemic in India, according to an ICMR study across 10 hospitals, including two (Sion and Hinduja) in Mumbai. The study showed that more than half of the Covid-19 patients who get a secondary bacterial or fungal infection die. A secondary…

According to researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago, the antibiotics used to treat common bacterial infections, like pneumonia and sinusitis, may also be used to treat human diseases, like cancer. Theoretically, at least. As outlined in a new Nature Communications study, the UIC College of Pharmacy team has shown…

Indian researchers say they have isolated two new species of antibiotic-resistant bacteria from the scat, or fecal matter, of a vine snake, a mildly venomous reptile found throughout South and Southeast Asia, according to a March 14 article in the scientific journal Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. The new species are resistant…

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MUMBAI: India is facing a shortage of certain antibiotics, key steroids, anti-fungal drugs, life-saving medicines, vitamins and even commonly used paracetamol, amid a severe second wave of Covid-19. This comes even as the drug industry is facing a huge escalation in raw material prices, packaging, transport and logistics costs. Two…

When Ilya Metchnikoff was 8 and running around on his parents’ Panassovka estate in Little Russia, now Ukraine, he was making notes on the local flora like a junior botanist. He gave science lectures to his older brothers and local kids whose attendance he assured by paying them from his…

There are currently only a few synthetic agents that bind to and block the widespread membrane transport proteins, ATP-binding cassette transporters (ABC). Scientists at Goethe University and the University of Tokyo identified four of these macrocyclic peptides as models for a novel generation of active substances. They used methods for…

(From top left to bottom right) (1)Model the KCNQ1 structure and define the binding site; (2) Generate the binding site spheres to represent the curvatures (and thereby the shape) of the binding site. (3) Dock compounds from the Available Chemicals Directory using Mdock by matching the atomic centers of each…