Are advances in medical technology sufficient to keep pace with antibiotic resistance?
Walking to the light,
Let’s step back a bit on this question. We care about antibiotics and antibiotic resistance because they impact our ability to…
Let’s step back a bit on this question. We care about antibiotics and antibiotic resistance because they impact our ability to…
A visit to “Superbugs: the fight for our lives”, an exhibition about antibiotic resistance at the Science Museum in London.
Worldwide, we are facing a major public health threat of superbugs and their increasing resistance to current antibiotics. Scient…
Source: http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2596302 Viewpoint January 10, 2017 The Rise of…
Normally, when you look at a population of animals, they all look about the same—what biologists call the “wild type.” But…
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The eradication of infectious diseases in the 20th century is arguably one of the most important achievements in modern medicine.
Except maybe climate change, it's the thing scientists get scariest about: Are we about to be devoured by drug resistant super-bu…
My research focuses on antibiotics – specifically antibiotic resistance. Last week I gave a seminar on my work, which was…
The discovery of penicillin is arguably the greatest advance in medicine we have...
Dass recht verschwenderisch mit der Gabe von Antibiotika umgegangen wird, ist allgemeiner Konsens. Gerade letzte Woche stand…
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The discovery of a new antibiotic called teixobactin was announced by international team of researchers, in January this year.
Nearly a century after scientists dug up penicillin, researchers are turning once more to the soil for new pharmaceuticals. But…
There is a widespread concern about the increasing antibiotic resistance and the limited new drugs to treat infectious diseases…
Methicillin-resistant Staph aureus. Photo NIAIDThe beginning of 2015 brought (potentially) good news for medicine: the…
Environment Photo credit: There are countless bacteria living in the soil. Any one could yield a medical…
Global antibiotic resistance is imperilling our existence. We need clever ways to find new bug-beating drugs Continue reading...
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Dennis writes:hi Doc, A paper just published in nature: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/pdf/nature14098.pdf…
Editor’s note: This post is part of a series stemming from the Third Annual Health Law Year in P/Review event held at Harvard…
Cross-posted from Health Affairs…
The news has been abuzz with excitement over Teixobactin, the first brand new antibiotic that has been discovered in decades.
W ubiegłym roku pisałem dość (względnie) dużo o problemie antybiotyko-opornych bakterii i tego, że przemysł farmaceutyczny w…
The President's 2016 budget asks for ambitious funding to fight antibiotic resistance, and combatting that healthcare peril may…
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. If you’ve been on the Internet at all in 2015, you’ve probably stumbled across headlines like “Two-thirds of cancers are due…
Estructura de la teixobactina, un nuevo tipo de antibiótico. Fuente: WikipediaEl descubrimiento de un nuevo antibiótico, la…
科学家们发现了一类可消灭多种危险耐药菌的抗生素。这种名为泰斯巴汀
Caption: Microfluidic chip being used by scientists to search dirt for new sources of antibiotics.Credit: Slava Epstein/Northeast…
SCOPERTE – Un nuovo antibiotico e, soprattutto, il modo in cui è stato sviluppato possono aiutare a risolvere un urgente…
"You can look at antibiotic resistance as a slow moving global train wreck, which will happen over the next 35 years," health…
Kids, forget everything your pre-school teachers told you: Go play in the dirt all you like! This month, scientists — after…
Researchers have discovered a new antibiotic unlike any other. Published in Nature (currently free to access), this new…
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The biggest news in the science world this week was from a tiny microbe that grows in the dirt. A study published in Nature…
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A group of researchers led by Prof Kim Lewis of Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, has discovered a new…
Uno studio pubblicato da Nature sembra aprire a nuove speranze grazie alla scoperta di una molecola fino ad oggi sconosciuta.
-Ay mamá, tengo un catarrazo que no levanto cabeza… llevo ya casi una…
A big announcement for 23andMe, a new antibiotic in development appears promising, a thoughtful discussion on the cost of drugs…
Humans have a massive footprint on our ecosystem. Enough so that we have to think carefully about anything we do on a large…
Die Mikrobiologen gelten als einer der Hauptgewinner des explosiven Fortschritts in der Genomsequenzierung. Endlich, so…
Manca ancora il riscontro sull’uomo. Ma i primi indizi sono talmente confortanti da portare gli autori della ricerca a definire …
Over the past quarter century, many pharmaceutical companies have largely turned their backs on the quest to develop new…
Bacterial infections are hard to fight. It's not just that there are "superbugs" which resist antibiotics, like MRSA -- it's…
Image: Slava EpsteinAfter decades of using the same old methods, researchers have developed the first new antibiotic in three…
Part of the hoopla over antibiotic resistance involves the lack of new drug targets. But this week, Ling et al. published a…
A collaborative research team from universities, research institutes, and industry in Boston and Bonn, Germany, reported…
A new antibiotic may hold the key to combating drug-resistant infections, according to research published in Nature.read more
Pathogene können sehr wahrscheinlich gegen Teixobactin, das vielversprechendste von 25 neuen, mit Hilfe von Erdreich gezüchtetete…
It's a game changer - scientists have discovered a new class of antibiotics which can kill an array of germs by blocking their…
A team from Northeastern University/Bonn/Novobiotic (and Selcia) has published a very worthwhile paper in Nature on a new…
A team from Northeastern University/Bonn/Novobiotic (and Selcia) has published a very worthwhile paper in Nature on a new…
The following paper was published as recently as yesterday, but already caused a bit of a stir on social media. Let’s see why.
The powerful antimicrobial teixobactin was discovered using a new technique that could speed up the discovery of new…
The powerful antimicrobial teixobactin was discovered using a new technique that could speed up the discovery of new…
Researchers discover 25 new antibiotics using backyard soil.
Researchers in Germany and the USA have just published a paper in the journal Nature describing a new antibiotic they have…
A microbe found in a grassy field appears to contain a remarkably powerful antibiotic. Called teixobactin, it kills dangerous…
Antibiotic resistance, a hot topic lately here at the labs, as evidence by this recent post. So it is fortuitous that I…
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Not a week goes by without some claim of a new miracle antibiotic. Usually, when I read the press releases I yawn and go back…
The method, which extracts drugs from bacteria that live in dirt, has yielded a powerful new antibiotic, researchers reported…
El compuesto, conocido como teixobactina, actúa frente a una gran variedad de bacterias causantes de enfermedades importantes y…
In the fight against infectious bacteria, humans are slowly losing the battle. That’s because common pathogens are developing…
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Scientists say they have birthed what may be the first new class of antibiotics in nearly three decades.
Scientists Hit Antibiotic Pay Dirt Growing Finicky Bacteria In…
A natural compound kills germs that have become resistant to antibiotics, researchers say. If it works in humans, it could help…
Northeastern researchers use an “iChip,” a miniature device that can isolate and help grow single cells in their natural…
The British chemist Lesley Orgel had a rule: Evolution is cleverer than you. Antibiotic-resistant bacteria have repeatedly…