Microorganisms produce a wide variety of natural products that can be used as active ingredients to treat diseases such as…
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Viruses that infect and kill bacteria, called phages, hold promise as new treatment types for dangerous infections, including strains that…
Read More »Higher rates of certain cancers in countries, such as the UK, may be linked to two particular strains of bacteria.…
Read More »Bacteria modify their ribosomes when exposed to widely used antibiotics, according to research published today in Nature Communications. The subtle…
Read More »Within a cell, DNA carries the genetic code for building proteins. To build proteins, the cell makes a copy of…
Read More »A novel new test for bacteria in fluids makes it as easy as observing a colour change to confirm the…
Read More »Lund University in Sweden has previously reported on Kristian Riesbeck, professor of clinical bacteriology at Lund University and senior consultant,…
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Tom’s of Maine’s natural health and beauty products may have an unwelcome ingredient—harmful bacteria—according to a warning letter released by…
Read More »Antibacterial drugs are important for treating infections. But increasingly, bacterial resistance to current drugs — so they don’t work well,…
Read More »Recent estimates indicate that deadly antibiotic-resistant infections will rapidly escalate over the next quarter century. More than 1 million people…
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