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The fatal infections caused by Bacillus anthracis, commonly known as anthrax, may soon become treatable, thanks to the work of experts at the University of Michigan (U-M), in the United States.
In a recent study, the team was able to identify a series of new potential targets on the bacteria, which may be used by th... |
10 May 2012
05:24 GMT |
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A collaboration of investigators from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Cambridge and Brigham and Women's Hospital has recently come up with a new therapeutic approach for addressing drug-resistant bacteria. Their method relies on the use of special nanoscale particles.
Drug resistance developed in... |
4 May 2012
05:47 GMT |
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In a first-of-its-kind investigation, scientists at the University of Nevada in Reno (UNR) discovered that antibiotics have transgenerational effects, meaning that they cause changes that are transferred to the next generation, from parents to their offspring.
This could be a very significant finding, analysts says.... |
2 May 2012
03:54 GMT |
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A collaboration of investigators from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in Cambridge, and Boston University, has recently conducted a study that finally revealed how all three major classes of antibiotics work. These mechanisms have never been fully understood until now.
Though antibiotics first start... |
20 April 2012
04:25 GMT |
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A group of Canadian investigators report in EMBO that treating asthmatic mice with the antibiotic vancomycin resulted in an accentuation of their symptoms. In other words, the chemical made the problem worse, rather than solve it.
The study was conducted on allergic asthma, and its conclusions demonstrate that the ... |
19 March 2012
05:59 GMT |
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An international collaboration of researchers was recently able to create a model of the unique enzyme Lsd19, which researchers say common species of soil bacteria use to create compounds with natural antibiotic properties.
Ever since microorganisms were found to be able to create antibiotics, chemists have been wo... |
5 March 2012
03:28 GMT |
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In addition to being extremely dangerous to humans on their own, many microorganisms also display the ability to mutate extremely fast, so that they can adapt to new, unexpected situations at a moment's notice. The capability was observed as scientists monitored microbes in a new experiment.
The research team,... |
27 January 2012
03:31 GMT |
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University of Michigan (U-M) investigators say that superbugs can easily form in wastewater treatment plants, due to the fact that not many pharmaceutical and chemical companies take care in rendering the antibiotics residues they produce inactive.
In the large bacterial fermentation tanks that each treatment plant... |
27 October 2011
05:03 GMT |
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Scientists announce the discovery of the first strain of gonorrhea that is completely invulnerable to all available strains of antibiotics. The bacteria that causes this condition – Neisseria gonorrhoeae – was known to have resistance to some drugs, but experts did not know how much it had evolved. The ba... |
11 July 2011
06:01 GMT |
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According to the conclusions of a new scientific investigation, it would appear that taking antibiotics to treat viruses such as the common cold or the flu makes the microorganisms stronger, rather than destroy them. These are very important results, and ones that people need to listen to.Now that self-medication has... |
15 March 2011
04:34 GMT |
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Canadian researchers warn that older people who are taking calcium channel blockers (common blood pressure medications) could face a very high risk of developing extremely low blood pressure and even going into shock, if they take certain antibiotics.Lead researcher Dr. David Juurlink, a scientist at Sunnybrook Resea... |
18 January 2011
06:35 GMT |
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A group of researchers from the University of Michigan in Ann Harbor (UM) announces the creation of a monitoring method for bacteria that eliminates the need for microscopes. Their technique relies on using a device made from components that are commercially available and cheap. In fact, the team says, their innovati... |
18 January 2011
03:30 GMT |
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A new study carried out by a team of Russian and German scientists, concluded that cold plasma jets could be an efficient replacement for antibiotics, in treating multi-drug resistant infections.The researchers proved than a ten-minute treatment with low-temperature plasma managed to kill drug-resistant bacteria that... |
15 December 2010
08:52 GMT |
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Researchers from the Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, warn that short courses of antibiotics can leave behind normal gut bacteria with antibiotic resistance genes for as long as two years after the end of the treatment.Before this new survey, health care professionals believed that the impact the ant... |
1 November 2010
10:26 GMT |
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Patients suffering from cellulitis should be treated with vancomycin, a powerful drug that has showed better and faster results that other antibiotics like penicillin, Henry Ford Hospital researchers found.Cellulitis is an inflammation of subcutaneous and dermal layers of the skin, caused by normal skin flora or exog... |
25 October 2010
03:55 GMT |
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In a finding that could lead to the development of new therapies against bacterial infections, experts recently found out that certain bacteria can basically get up and “walk” when creating biofilms.These are structures that cover bacterial colonies after the microorganisms start taking hold of a new host... |
8 October 2010
02:47 GMT |
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People should know better not to take antibiotics when having a viral infection, but the most concerning thing is when actual doctors make this mistake on their patients.A study published in the November issue of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, concluded that doctors are frequently misusing antibiotics w... |
23 September 2010
10:28 GMT |
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Scientists analyzed the genomic features of a Peruvian parasite population and found the genetic basis for the malaria parasite resistance to a common antibiotic, which gave them new ideas on how to improve the diagnosis efficiency and treatment.Malaria is a death-causing disease that makes over one million victims a... |
9 September 2010
03:40 GMT |
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Few people really like cockroaches, but they might just be of great help to medicine, scientists from the University of Nottingham suggests, after they found strong antibiotic properties in the brains of cockroaches and locusts.Researchers from the School of Veterinary Medicine and Science made this discovery, ... |
7 September 2010
05:33 GMT |
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The latest chemical analysis of the bones of ancient Nubians has revealed that they were regularly consuming tetracycline, most likely in their beer.This is the strongest evidence that even if the penicillin was invented in 1928, the art of making antibiotics was no secret 2,000 years ago.The research was led by Emor... |
2 September 2010
10:33 GMT |
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It would appear that ants are also capable of harnessing the power of antibiotics for keeping their colonies alive, just like humans do. The finding was made by experts in the United Kingdom.The research team, based at the University of East Anglia, conducted a series of investigations on the renowned fungus-farming ... |
27 August 2010
09:06 GMT |
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A team of investigators from the Netherlands has recently managed to achieve an impressive goal, when they were able to “mine” the genome of a bacterium in search of antibiotics. The genetic material of these microorganisms could reveal a host of substances that may have beneficial effects on the human bo... |
2 August 2010
14:01 GMT |
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In an advancement that is bound to have numerous positive outcomes, researchers in Poland recently managed to develop a new, credit card-sized microflow system. The tool allows scientists to combine a number of chemicals in a single solution. It carries a host of channels, in which drops of liquid containing various ... |
29 July 2010
04:57 GMT |
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Bacteria are tremendously capable organisms, able to withstand some extremely harsh conditions. They can basically learn how to thrive in any type of environment, which is why they occupy most of the globe, apart from the mantle and the interior of active volcanoes. Unfortunately, they can also adapt to specific type... |
19 February 2010
04:24 GMT |
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One of the greatest problems plaguing the efficiency of healthcare systems around the world are the people who think they know what's best for them more than professional doctors do. In many instances, a defiant behavior as to the doctor may have more severe consequences than you can imagine, moving past hurting... |
12 February 2010
06:36 GMT |
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Scientists at the National University of Ireland, in Galway, have recently found that the use of disinfectants in homes may be effective against normal germs, but have learned that it also promotes the development of superbugs. These organisms appear from “normal” strains of bacteria or microbes, but evol... |
28 December 2009
04:45 GMT |
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Antibiotic over-prescription is a very serious problem in the world today, but especially in civilized countries. Here, pediatricians often prescribe way too much medicines for children for a very harmless disease, and the trend appears to be accelerating every year, analysts say. According to a new study, it would s... |
6 November 2009
06:59 GMT |
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As we pointed out earlier, the state of the “war” between microorganisms and humans is getting increasingly worrying for our species. In spite of being more complex in make-up than bacteria – or maybe because of that –, we cannot adapt very fast to their mutations, and our immune systems just ... |
22 September 2009
02:55 GMT |
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Bacteria are the longest living organisms on Earth, estimated to have appeared around 3 billion years ago, long before anything else inhabited the surface or the oceans. They have remarkable adaptation skills, and are in fact the only group of living things that can survive virtually anywhere, from hydrothermal vents... |
6 August 2009
07:03 GMT |
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As patients using eye drops on a regular basis can attest to, walking around all day with the bottle of medicine and putting drops of liquid in our eyes again and again is quite unpleasant. Thanks to an innovative type of contact lenses, created at the Harvard Medical School, people could soon have their drugs releas... |
22 July 2009
05:08 GMT |
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Researchers from the University of California in Davis (UCD) said as far back as 1951 that the use of powerful antibiotics as growth-promoting hormones in livestock meant for human consumption increased the incidence of antibiotic-resistant coliform bacteria, which could pose a very real threat to us. They gave the s... |
17 June 2009
05:14 GMT |
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Biologists and bioengineers working in the field of making antibiotics-resistant infections a thing of the past have scored a major breakthrough recently, when they have managed to develop a synthetic DNA binding compound. The substance is able to combine with the DNA of pathogens such as bacteria and kills them with... |
9 June 2009
10:34 GMT |
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The battle between biologists and chemists, on the one hand, and fast-evolving pathogens, on the other, is the most important underway in the world today, simply because its implications affect every single inhabitant of the planet. If scientists lag behind and germs, viruses, or harmful bacteria mutate, then countle... |
17 February 2009
13:01 GMT |
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A new surveillance technique, developed by researchers at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), offered scientists studying the microorganisms that live in symbiosis with us a way to look at the changes bacteria in our gut undergo when we take antibiotics for several days. They've learned that the drugs not on... |
19 November 2008
17:01 GMT |
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The use of these painkillers has recently been linked to a lower risk of women developing breast cancer. The study shows that aspirin accounts for 13 percent less breast cancer cases among women using the drug, while ibuprofen decreases the risk of cancer developing by more than 21 percent. This means that these anti... |
9 October 2008
03:30 GMT |
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HIV epidemics started with a boom in the gay communities. Now, the same category seems to be a hotbed for a new, highly antibiotic-resistant strain of superbug or MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) bacteria, as found by an UCSF study published in the "Annals of Internal Medicine." Like HIV, the new ba... |
15 January 2008
03:51 GMT |
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Gonorrhea or clap, as it is colloquially named, is the second most common sexually transmitted disease in the US after Chlamydia. The disease is determined by the bacteria Neisseria gonorrhoeae and causes pains during urinating and sexual contact, ectopial pregnancies, and blindness in newborn if untreated. There wer... |
16 April 2007
05:58 GMT |
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What does "greatest" mean?Probably the best definition would be the "most defining of who we are today", something that dramatically changed the life of all humanity, and I will be referring only to inventions and not to discoveries such as the fire or the wheel.10 - The Telescope - It proved for the first time that... |
31 March 2007
03:35 GMT |
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