Antibiotics

Masked palm civets sold in markets in China were linked to the SARS outbreak in 2002.Credit: Matthew Maran/NPL China bans eating of wild animalsChina’s top law-making body has banned the eating of wild-animal meat in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, which has been linked to a wild-animal market in…

Masked palm civets sold in markets in China were linked to the SARS outbreak in 2002.Credit: Matthew Maran/NPL China bans eating of wild animalsChina’s top law-making body has banned the eating of wild-animal meat in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, which has been linked to a wild-animal market in…

The treatment of infections can be challenging, as it takes some time to determine if harmful bacteria are even present, and to then figure out which antibiotic would work best. A simple new test, however, is said to answer both questions on the spot.Ordinarily, a patient's blood or urine samples…

Main Blog > Killing Bacteria In An Entirely New Way Antibiotics are what we use to treat various bacterial infections. But sometimes, antibiotics may be rendered ineffective when bacteria develop antimicrobial resistance and become resistant to these antibiotics. This phenomenon can be really dangerous, as the bacteria will continue to…

(FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.) — A female manatee named Marlin and its calf were rescued after wildlife specialists found them injured in Florida waters. The South Florida Sun Sentinel reports the pair is being treated for wounds and infections at the Miami Seaquarium. The mother was found Saturday with boat strike…

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…