Humans have appreciated silver's antimicrobial activity for millennia. Hippocrates used the precious metal for wound dressings while the pioneers of the American frontier placed coins in their water to guard against bacteria ...
Bio & Medicine
Apr 13, 2017
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Antibiotic resistance is one of medicine's most pressing problems. Now, a team from Korea is tackling this in a unique way: using bacteria to fight bacteria.
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 21, 2017
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Bacteria may mutate more rapidly in space and scientists theorize patterns of those mutations could help predict how pathogens become resistant to antibiotics. Such predictions could, in turn, be used to develop new drugs ...
Space Exploration
Mar 20, 2017
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7
Public health officials are increasingly concerned over methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). The bacteria have developed resistance to a number of treatments, even antibiotics of last resort in some cases. ...
Biochemistry
Mar 15, 2017
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8
Salicylic acid is a plant hormone best known for its use as a key ingredient in pain relievers, anti-acne preparations and medications for skin conditions. We also consume mild doses of salicylic acid when we eat fruits and ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 3, 2017
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University of Connecticut medicinal chemists have developed experimental antibiotics that kill MRSA, a common and often deadly bacteria that causes skin, lung, and heart infections. The success is due to their strategy, which ...
Biochemistry
Dec 22, 2016
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Microbes, specifically disease-causing bacteria, can cause all sorts of havoc when they take hold on surfaces.
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 1, 2016
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18
Staph bacteria colonize nasal passages through a newly discovered function for a primeval biochemical mechanism.
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 28, 2016
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359
The mesoporous material Upsalite is shown to inhibit growth of bacteria associated with acne and hospital acquired infections. In a study published in ACS Omega, researchers at Uppsala University have shown that the mesoporous ...
Biochemistry
Nov 17, 2016
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Over the past few decades, many bacteria have become resistant to existing antibiotics, and few new drugs have emerged. A recent study from a U.K. commission on antimicrobial resistance estimated that by 2050, antibiotic-resistant ...
Biochemistry
Nov 2, 2016
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