Researchers at MIT, the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Integrated Biosciences, the Wyss Institute…
Browsing: Antibiotics
Antibiotics are a class of drugs used to prevent and treat bacterial infections by either killing bacteria or inhibiting their growth. Discovered in the early 20th century, with penicillin being the first widely used antibiotic introduced in the 1940s, antibiotics have revolutionized medicine by making once lethal infections treatable. They are crucial in a variety of medical settings, ranging from routine surgeries to chemotherapy and care for chronic diseases. However, the overuse and misuse of antibiotics have led to a significant public health issue: antibiotic resistance. This occurs when bacteria evolve mechanisms to withstand the drugs designed to kill them, leading to more difficult-to-treat infections and increasing the risk of disease spread, severe illness, and death. As a result, there is a growing emphasis on the responsible use of antibiotics in both human and veterinary medicine and on the development of new types of antibiotics and alternative treatments to combat antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
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Researchers at Maynooth University have developed a new molecule designed to combat drug-resistant bacteria. An…
Global guidelines urgently require an update. Antibiotics commonly used to manage prevalent infections in infants…
A cooperation between the University of Bonn, the USA, and the Netherlands cracks the mode…
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Researchers at Cal State Fullerton have found a lactic acid bacteria strain effective against the…
The World Health Organization has identified antimicrobial resistance as a worldwide concern because most clinical…
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A team from Lund University in Sweden collaborated with Ukrainian microbiologists to study bacterial resistance…
A new powerful antibiotic, isolated from previously unstudied bacteria, shows promise in tackling harmful bacteria,…