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Harvard Chemists Develop a New Platform for Discovering Antibiotics

May 24, 2016

Team hopes to shorten time, difficulty in measuring their effectiveness, potential

Skin Tests Useless in Predicting Antibiotic Allergies

April 13, 2016

Study also determines that the oral provocation or challenge test, with appropriate follow up, was a more efficient and ...

A New Way to Counter Antibiotic Resistance

March 21, 2016

“We need new strategies to block development of resistance and to prolong the life of antibiotics, and we believe our w...

Maternal Bacterial Infections Trigger Abnormal Proliferation of Neurons in Fetal Brain

March 11, 2016

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital scientists have identified a mechanism that might explain the link between matern...

Under the Weather? A Blood Test Can Tell If Antibiotics Are Needed

January 22, 2016

Team has developed "gene signatures" to indicate whether someone is fighting infection from a virus or bacteria...

Tuberculosis: Daily Antibiotics Recommended to Prevent Resistant Strains

November 27, 2015

Finding could help inform the treatment of the roughly 10 million people worldwide who fall ill with tuberculosis each year...

Fighting Gum Disease with Blueberries

September 4, 2015

In the lab, the researchers tested extracts from the wild lowbush blueberry

Startup Offers Antibiotic Alternative to Animal Producers

June 3, 2015

A University of Wisconsin-Madison animal scientist has developed an antibiotic-free method to protect animals raised for food...

Using Robots at Berkeley Lab, Scientists Assemble Promising Antimicrobial Compounds

June 3, 2015

There’s an urgent demand for new antimicrobial compounds that are effective against constantly emerging drug-resistant ...

Engineers Turn E. coli into Tiny Factories for Producing New Forms of Popular Antibiotic

June 1, 2015

Like a dairy farmer tending to a herd of cows to produce milk, researchers are tending to colonies of the bacteria Esche...

Vulnerability Found in Some Drug-Resistant Bacteria

May 30, 2015

Using a complex modeling program that helps analyze the physical dynamics of large, structurally complex protein molecules, a...

Bacteria Research Opens Way for New Antibiotics

May 9, 2015

University of Adelaide researchers have discovered a target for the development of completely new antibiotics against disease...

Could Maple Syrup Help Cut Use of Antibiotics?

April 17, 2015

Syrup extract found to make antibiotics more effective against bacteria

AncientBiotics: A Medieval Remedy for Modern Day Superbugs?

March 31, 2015

A one thousand year old Anglo-Saxon remedy for eye infections which originates from a manuscript in the British Library has b...

Scientists Must Reduce Antibiotic Use in Experiments

March 20, 2015

Antibiotic resistance is a catastrophic threat –and it threatens the achievements of modern medicine...

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