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Antibiotics
Antibiotics: is a type of antimicrobial substance active against bacteria and is the most important type of antibacterial agent for fighting bacterial infections. Antibiotic medications are widely used in the treatment and prevention of such infections. They may either kill or inhibit the growth of bacteria.
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MAY 16, 2023Clinical & Molecular DX
What if sutures could actually promote wound healing? Scientists have designed so-called smart sutures that not only sti ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAY 14, 2023Clinical & Molecular DX
Scientists have developed a device called CapScan that people can take like a pill, and it will move through the digesti ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAY 11, 2023Microbiology
There are many bacteria in the world that are, or have the potential to be beneficial to humans. Microbes have found ing ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAY 01, 2023Clinical & Molecular DX
Bacteria are everywhere, and while many are harmless and some are even beneficial, pathogenic bacteria present an increa ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAPR 24, 2023Clinical & Molecular DX
When triple-negative breast cancer patients took several prescriptions worth of antibiotics in the three years after the ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAPR 22, 2023Microbiology
Bacteria can easily exchange genetic information in a process called horizontal gene transfer. But now researchers have ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAPR 20, 2023Drug Discovery & Development
Multidrug-resistant bacteria can be passed between pet cats and dogs to their owners. The corresponding study was presen ...Written By: Annie LennonAPR 06, 2023Cell & Molecular Biology
Ribosomes are molecular machines that translate messenger RNA (mRNA), which is transcribed from DNA, into proteins. Scie ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAPR 04, 2023Cell & Molecular Biology
While we may think of some bacteria as friendly and others as pathogenic, the situation can become very complex. Not onl ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAPR 03, 2023Clinical & Molecular DX
Shigella sonnei is a leading cause of a diarrheal disease called shigellosis in high-income countries, and this bacteria ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAR 31, 2023Cell & Molecular Biology
Our microbiomes host trillions of microbes, and they can easily share resistance genes.Written By: Carmen LeitchMAR 29, 2023Health & Medicine
By harnessing a cellular process called autophagy, researchers at hope to boost our body's ability to protect against in ...Written By: Amielle MorenoMAR 24, 2023Health & Medicine
An outbreak of extensively drug-resistant P. aeruginosa bacterial infections that are thought to be linked to eye drops ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAR 13, 2023Immunology
This work can help explain why antibiotics can interfere with the efficacy of cancer immunotherapies & may help research ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAR 13, 2023Drug Discovery & Development
Antibiotics are a great class of drugs used to treat a variety of infections.1 However, the bacterial life cycle is much ...Written By: Greta AnneMAR 10, 2023Health & Medicine
While the world became very familiar with mRNA vaccines because of the COVID-19 pandemic, mRNA vaccines have been around ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAR 07, 2023Genetics & Genomics
Antibiotics can destroy many types of bacteria, but increasingly, bacterial pathogens are gaining resistance to many com ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAR 05, 2023Microbiology
Estimates vary, but Streptococcus pyogenes infections may be responsible for the deaths of over 500,000 people every yea ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAR 03, 2023Health & Medicine
Infections with many different types of bacteria including Streptococcus pneumonia and Listeria monocytogens can cause b ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAR 03, 2023Immunology
In recent years, we have learned a lot about the crucial role gut microbes play in our health and well being. The extent ...Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 27, 2023Drug Discovery & Development
A new drug shows the potential to treat an exceptionally resilient sexual infection. A case study from the ...Written By: Amielle MorenoFEB 27, 2023Microbiology
The CDC has issued an alert about a rise in extensively drug-resistant (XDR) shigellosis, which causes gastrointestinal ...Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 24, 2023Microbiology
Scientists have found that a gene that has been previously identified in many animals and their associated microbes can ...Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 20, 2023Drug Discovery & Development
Researchers have discovered a bacteria-killing virus that may be effective against antibiotic-resistant bacteria. The co ...Written By: Annie Lennon
MAY 16, 2023
Clinical & Molecular DX
What if sutures could actually promote wound healing? Scientists have designed so-called smart sutures that not only sti
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 14, 2023
Clinical & Molecular DX
Scientists have developed a device called CapScan that people can take like a pill, and it will move through the digesti
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 11, 2023
Microbiology
There are many bacteria in the world that are, or have the potential to be beneficial to humans. Microbes have found ing
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 01, 2023
Clinical & Molecular DX
Bacteria are everywhere, and while many are harmless and some are even beneficial, pathogenic bacteria present an increa
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 24, 2023
Clinical & Molecular DX
When triple-negative breast cancer patients took several prescriptions worth of antibiotics in the three years after the
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 22, 2023
Microbiology
Bacteria can easily exchange genetic information in a process called horizontal gene transfer. But now researchers have
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 20, 2023
Drug Discovery & Development
Multidrug-resistant bacteria can be passed between pet cats and dogs to their owners. The corresponding study was presen
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
APR 06, 2023
Cell & Molecular Biology
Ribosomes are molecular machines that translate messenger RNA (mRNA), which is transcribed from DNA, into proteins. Scie
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 04, 2023
Cell & Molecular Biology
While we may think of some bacteria as friendly and others as pathogenic, the situation can become very complex. Not onl
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 03, 2023
Clinical & Molecular DX
Shigella sonnei is a leading cause of a diarrheal disease called shigellosis in high-income countries, and this bacteria
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 31, 2023
Cell & Molecular Biology
Our microbiomes host trillions of microbes, and they can easily share resistance genes.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 29, 2023
Health & Medicine
By harnessing a cellular process called autophagy, researchers at hope to boost our body's ability to protect against in
...
Written By:
Amielle Moreno
MAR 24, 2023
Health & Medicine
An outbreak of extensively drug-resistant P. aeruginosa bacterial infections that are thought to be linked to eye drops
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 13, 2023
Immunology
This work can help explain why antibiotics can interfere with the efficacy of cancer immunotherapies & may help research
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 13, 2023
Drug Discovery & Development
Antibiotics are a great class of drugs used to treat a variety of infections.1 However, the bacterial life cycle is much
...
Written By:
Greta Anne
MAR 10, 2023
Health & Medicine
While the world became very familiar with mRNA vaccines because of the COVID-19 pandemic, mRNA vaccines have been around
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 07, 2023
Genetics & Genomics
Antibiotics can destroy many types of bacteria, but increasingly, bacterial pathogens are gaining resistance to many com
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 05, 2023
Microbiology
Estimates vary, but Streptococcus pyogenes infections may be responsible for the deaths of over 500,000 people every yea
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 03, 2023
Health & Medicine
Infections with many different types of bacteria including Streptococcus pneumonia and Listeria monocytogens can cause b
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 03, 2023
Immunology
In recent years, we have learned a lot about the crucial role gut microbes play in our health and well being. The extent
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 27, 2023
Drug Discovery & Development
A new drug shows the potential to treat an exceptionally resilient sexual infection. A case study from the
...
Written By:
Amielle Moreno
FEB 27, 2023
Microbiology
The CDC has issued an alert about a rise in extensively drug-resistant (XDR) shigellosis, which causes gastrointestinal
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 24, 2023
Microbiology
Scientists have found that a gene that has been previously identified in many animals and their associated microbes can
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 20, 2023
Drug Discovery & Development
Researchers have discovered a bacteria-killing virus that may be effective against antibiotic-resistant bacteria. The co
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon