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Rise of the Nanomachines
The New Yorker· 3 hours 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...
Swedish company claims £8m prize for rapid AMR diagnostic device
Medical Device Network via Yahoo Finance· 2 hours agoThe prize was created to encourage applicants to design a device capable of determining bacterial...
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· 18 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...
New antibiotic kills harmful bacteria, spares healthy gut microbes
Interesting Engineering· 4 days agoThe groundbreaking antibiotic called lolamicin kills harmful bacteria while preserving the...
Better antimicrobial use data to accelerate action on antimicrobial resistance
World Health Organization· 7 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 ...
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...
Thousands of Sources for New Antibiotics to Fight Superbugs Found Using AI–and Dozens Worked
GoodNewsNetwork· 6 days agoHundreds of thousands of potential sources of new antibiotics have been found in the natural world...
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...