A 'zinc' in the armor: Could metal help combat common superbug?
A new study has shown that zinc plays a key role in a hospital superbug that doctors struggle to treat due to its resistance to antibiotics.
A new study has shown that zinc plays a key role in a hospital superbug that doctors struggle to treat due to its resistance to antibiotics.
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 15, 2023
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Some of the world's most deadly and drug-resistant pathogens work collaboratively to become more powerful and infectious, a new study has found.
Ecology
Feb 13, 2023
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In 2020, a chance discovery near the small South African hamlet of Misgund in the Eastern Cape unearthed an unusual parcel—a gift to science. The parcel turned out to be a 500-year-old cow horn, capped with a leather lid ...
Archaeology
Feb 10, 2023
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Researchers in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University have uncovered something new in one of the most studied organisms on Earth, and their discoveries could impact ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 26, 2023
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The hospital pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa requires the sugar-binding proteins LecA and LecB to form biofilms as well as to attach to and penetrate host cells. These so-called lectins are therefore suitable targets for ...
Biochemistry
Jan 16, 2023
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Biomedical engineers at Duke University have developed a tablet-based vaccine for urinary tract infections (UTIs) that rapidly dissolves when placed under the tongue. The new treatment could offer an easy and practical alternative ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 29, 2022
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An international team of scientists investigating transmission of a deadly drug resistant bacteria that rivals MRSA, has found that while the bugs are found in livestock, pets and the wider environment, they are rarely transmitted ...
Ecology
Nov 21, 2022
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National University of Singapore biophysicists have discovered how a special bacterial adhesion complex could be counterintuitively stabilized by mechanical stress at the single-molecule level.
Biochemistry
Oct 25, 2022
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University of Portsmouth researchers have found a naturally occurring compound, known as hydroquinine, has bacterial killing activity against several microorganisms.
Biochemistry
Aug 31, 2022
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Kidney disease affects one in nine adults globally and the incidence of kidney failure is steadily rising around the world. Being able to grow working kidney tissue in a laboratory could help accelerate medical treatments ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 30, 2022
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