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Rise of the Nanomachines
The New Yorker· 32 minutes agoAt the time, Santos was at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Paris, studying genes that allow some bacteria to live longer than others. One...
Antibiotics wreak havoc on the gut. Can we kill the bad bugs and spare the good ones?
Los Angeles Times· 1 day agoInside every human is a thriving zoo of bacteria, fungi, viruses and other microscopic organisms...
£8m Longitude Prize won for tackling superbug rise
BBC via Yahoo News· 15 hours agoIt has been awarded for a test that rapidly detects whether an infection is caused by bacteria and identifies the right antibiotics to treat it. The test...
New Era? 'Double Selective' Antibiotic Spares the Microbiome
Medscape· 6 days agoA new antibiotic uses a never-before-seen mechanism to deliver a direct hit on tough-to-treat...
Better antimicrobial use data to accelerate action on antimicrobial resistance
World Health Organization· 6 days agoThe Global Research on Antimicrobial Resistance (GRAM) project estimates that 123 834 deaths in the Region in 2019 were directly due to sepsis caused by resistant bacteria, while a further 341 ...
New antibiotic kills harmful bacteria, spares healthy gut microbes
Interesting Engineering· 4 days agoThe groundbreaking antibiotic called lolamicin kills harmful bacteria while preserving the...
Statins pioneer Akira Endo dies aged 90
BBC via AOL· 3 hours agoOther pharmaceutical companies then began to search for similar compounds. And in September 1987 the first statin - lovastatin - was approved in the US...
Bacteria live on our eyeballs – and understanding their role could help treat common eye diseases
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 4 days agoJust like the gut, the skin and the mouth, the eye also has a collection of microbes that keep it...
Long delay in antibiotic administration increases mortality risk in kids with sepsis
Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy· 7 days agoA study of pediatric sepsis patients suggests long delays in initiation of antibiotic therapy...
Salmonella outbreak tied to cucumbers sickens 162
Live Science via Yahoo News· 6 days agoIn such severe cases, the infection can be fatal. Most people recover from Salmonella infection, or salmonellosis, without antibiotics, but others face a...
