Biopharming technique yields cost-effective and environmentally friendly antimicrobial peptides
Plants engineered to produce therapeutic peptides could provide a cost-effective and sustainable platform for manufacturing drugs.
Plants engineered to produce therapeutic peptides could provide a cost-effective and sustainable platform for manufacturing drugs.
Cell & Microbiology
May 10, 2023
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Bacteria naturally adapt to various environmental stimuli and as they mutate, these changes can make them resistant to drugs that would kill or slow their growth.
Evolution
May 5, 2023
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Over the last few decades, antimicrobial resistance has become a major public health concern globally. This has led to a search for alternative methods of treating microbial infections.
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 23, 2023
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A transporter which some bacteria use to recycle fragments of their cell wall has been discovered by researchers at Umeå university, Sweden. They found that the transporter controls resistance to certain kinds of cell-wall ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 25, 2023
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Researchers in the Princeton University Department of Chemistry have discovered a new multi-step pathway through which bacteria found in the mammalian gut produce antimicrobial peptides.
Biochemistry
Nov 14, 2022
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Scientists have engineered mosquitoes that slow the growth of malaria-causing parasites in their gut, preventing transmission of the disease to humans.
Biotechnology
Sep 21, 2022
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New research from the University of Massachusetts Amherst concerning "synanthropic" flies—or the non-biting flies that live with us—argues that we need to pay far more attention to them as disease carriers. While epidemiologists ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 19, 2022
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Since the advent of penicillin more than 90 years ago, antibiotic drugs have saved countless lives by preventing and treating bacterial infections. However, bacteria are rapidly developing new ways to resist antibiotics, ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 25, 2022
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The rise of drug-resistant bacteria infections is one of the world's most severe global health issues, estimated to cause 10 million deaths annually by the year 2050. Some of the most virulent and antibiotic-resistant bacterial ...
Bio & Medicine
Feb 15, 2022
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that more than 2.8 million Americans experience antibiotic-resistant infections each year; more than 35,000 die from those infections.
Bio & Medicine
Jan 20, 2022
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