'Last resort' antibiotic pops bacteria like balloons
Scientists have revealed how an antibiotic of 'last resort' kills bacteria.
Cell & Microbiology
May 4, 2021
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News tagged with clinical trials
Drug development platform could provide flexible, rapid and targeted antimicrobials
When disease outbreaks happen, response time in developing and distributing treatments is crucial to saving lives. Unfortunately, developing custom drugs as countermeasures is often a slow and difficult process.
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 21, 2021
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Rapid-response technology could produce billions of vaccine doses fast enough to stop the next pandemic
Ever since the COVID-19 pandemic began more than a year ago, public health officials, scientists and policy leaders have struggled to contain the viral contagion that has claimed more than 2.4 million lives worldwide and ...
Biotechnology
Mar 17, 2021
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Color blindness-correcting contact lenses
Imagine seeing the world in muted shades—gray sky, gray grass. Some people with color blindness see everything this way, though most can't see specific colors. Tinted glasses can help, but they can't be used to correct ...
Bio & Medicine
Mar 3, 2021
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Targeting COVID-19 with innovative computational design methods
Yale scientists have developed a new class of antiviral agents that shows promise for creating COVID-19 therapeutics—exhibiting particular effectiveness when used in tandem with the drug remdesivir, another antiviral medication ...
Biotechnology
Feb 25, 2021
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Scientists are a step closer to developing 'smart' stem cells – and they're made from human fat
A new type of stem cell—that is, a cell with regenerative abilities—could be closer on the horizon, a new study led by UNSW Sydney shows.
Biotechnology
Jan 14, 2021
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Medicine-carriers made from human cells can cure lung infections
Scientists used human white blood cell membranes to carry two drugs, an antibiotic and an anti-inflammatory, directly to infected lungs in mice.
Bio & Medicine
Dec 3, 2020
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New protein imaging method paves way for next generation biomaterials and tissue analysis
Scientists have established a new method to image proteins that could lead to new discoveries in disease through biological tissue and cell analysis and the development of new biomaterials that can be used for the next generation ...
Analytical Chemistry
Nov 17, 2020
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Making cancer cells more susceptible to dying
Radiation and chemotherapy are designed to kill cancer cells. But for many patients, cancer cells can survive even after being hit with high doses of chemotherapy or radiation. To make treatment more effective, scientists ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 11, 2020
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New imaging method reveals HIV's sugary shield in unprecedented detail
Scientists from Scripps Research and Los Alamos National Laboratory have devised a method for mapping in unprecedented detail the thickets of slippery sugar molecules that help shield HIV from the immune system.
Molecular & Computational biology
Oct 23, 2020
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