A newly published study details how biologists at UC San Diego developed a new method…
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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.
Researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have imaged the atom-by-atom structure of the ribosome…
A new study from Yale University shows that eight beneficial gut bacteria common in honeybees…
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According to a new study, more than 40% of tuberculosis infections that are resistant to…
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If an effort to target bacteria that has become increasingly resistant to existing drugs, engineers…
As concerns over antibiotic-resistant bacteria continue to grow, a newly published study by researchers at…
Over the years antibiotics have saved many lives, but scientists never fully understood the process…
A new study could enable scientists to synthesize many important chemicals currently found only in…
Today the World Health Organization has released an updated report on the situation of drug-resistant…
Pesticide- and antibiotic-free meat fetch premium prices, but a recent study has shown that there…
DARPA researchers successfully treat previously lethal doses of radiation using bactericidal/permeability-increasing protein (BPI) and antibiotics.…