Antibiotics

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Antibiotics are important drugs that can save lives, but using them too often can lead to dangerous strains of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. New Penn State research explores how to communicate risk while encouraging people to seek information on their own. The researchers found that a brief animated…

University of Melbourne researchers are finding ways to beat dangerous superbugs with 'resistance resistant' antibiotics, and it could help in our fight against coronavirus (COVID-19) complications. As bacteria evolve, they develop strategies that undermine antibiotics and morph into 'superbugs' that can resist most available treatments and cause potentially lethal infections.…

The latest generation of tetracyclines -- a class of powerful, first-line antibiotics -- was designed to thwart the two most common ways bacteria resist such drugs. But a new study from researchers at Washington University in St. Louis and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has found that genes representing…

Ticker By EUobserver 2. Jun, 07:21 The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned that the increased use of antibiotics to combat the Covid-19 pandemic will strengthen bacterial resistance and ultimately lead to more deaths during the crisis and beyond, the Guardian reports. The UN health agency said it was concerned…

Increased antibiotics use in combating the COVID-19 pandemic will strengthen bacterial resistance and ultimately lead to more deaths during the crisis and beyond, the World Health Organization said Monday. WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said a "worrying number" of bacterial infections were becoming increasingly resistant to the medicines traditionally used…

Gravediggers prepare the coffin of Bruno Koki, who was the founder of the NGO Eu Amo Sao Cristovao, a social project which delivered aid donation to vulnerable people during the pandemic, after he died due the coronavirus disease outbreak, during his funeral in Sao Francisco Xavier cemetery, in Rio de…

Life Sciences Veteran Andrew Wilsack Joins TeamCHELMSFORD, Mass., May 28, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- First Light Diagnostics, Inc., a developer of breakthrough automated products for rapid, sensitive, and cost-effective diagnosis of life-threatening, antibiotic-resistant infections, has appointed Andrew Wilsack as the company's new CFO."Andrew's broad experience across disciplines will be an asset for…

The threat of antibiotic resistance is looming, but artificial intelligence may show the way forward Antibiotic resistance tests. Image: Dr Graham Beards This article appears in the Witness section of the Summer 2020 edition of New Humanist. Subscribe today. Before the development of penicillin, there was a very real danger…

Antonio Bolívar, who appeared in an acclaimed Colombian film, “was one of the last original Ocaina,” his son said.Photograph by Mauricio Duenas Castaneda / ZUMAOn the last Sunday of April, in the small city of Leticia, Colombia, a thirty-eight-year-old security guard named Cristian Bolívar was at work when he received…

Chemistry professor W. Dean Harman led a team developing a new method for manufacturing pharmaceuticals. Credit: Dan Addison, University Communications Medications are developed to work well for most people, but those whose genetic makeup causes them to metabolize medicine too quickly often need higher doses of the drugs they take…