Antibiotics

No new class of antibiotics has been brought to market for decades. Photo / Sharon McCutcheon, Unsplash Isabelle Carnell-Holdaway was only 15 when, in 2017, the cystic fibrosis she had endured all her life forced her to have a double lung transplant. CF patients depend on antibiotics every day to…

Israeli tech company BATM Advanced Communications Ltd. announced on Monday that they have received full funding to develop a new rapid molecular diagnostics test for Tuberculosis (TB), which is expected to begin its testing and validation phases in the second half of 2021. The testing and validation phases will be…

SYDNEY, Mar 27, 2021 (ACN Newswire) - In the past two years, Australian beef exporters have become victims of the trade war due to the acute worsening of trade relations between China and Australia. China stopped importing beef products from five Australian beef companies, four of which produced and exported…

“A victory for animals.” That’s what philosopher Peter Singer, a luminary of the animal protection movement, called it last week when Utah’s Governor Spencer Cox signed into law Bill 147, which mandates that all eggs produced in Utah be produced by cage-free chickens by 2025. With the law, Utah joins…

Andy Koh Ju Hua began abusing his mother in 2017 She decided to reveal his acts only in June 2020 She refused to file police reports sooner in order not to jeopardise his future A prosecutor revealed more of what Koh had done to her, beyond the charges pressed against…

There are fears that one of the most common sexually transmitted infections among gay men in Australia could become more resistant to antibiotics, with a new research recommending that GPs not test patients for the infection unless they present symptoms. Mycoplasma genitalium is a common sexually transmitted infection – it…

SAN DIEGO (AP) — The coughing among the western lowland gorillas at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park in January was the first warning sign. Soon the fears were confirmed: A troop of gorillas became the first apes known to test positive for the coronavirus. Around the world, many scientists…

Peter Thiel makes the case that the world has had relatively stagnated technology over the past 50 years. We have 15 times more oil and steel production than existed in 1940. We make more steel and oil in a month than was used by the Allies and Axis during a…

The last novelist who acted like he might save the world may have been Graham Greene. He belonged to a generation of writers who might not always share the same political opinions but who supported many of the same causes: defending jailed dissidents, protesting illegal wars, and challenging the unfairness…

In a study of E. coli, MIT researchers discovered that mutations to genes involved in metabolism can also help bacteria to evade the toxic effects of several different antibiotics. Credit: National Institutes of Health, edited by MIT News Study suggests forcing bacteria to burn more energy could make them more…