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Harold Russell |
The Lowdown On Superbugs The overuse and misuse of antibiotics has led to the development of resistant strains of bacteria, commonly referred to as superbugs.   |
HHMI Bulletin
Nov 2010
Sarah C.P. Williams |
A Study on Antibiotic Resistance Shows That Bacteria Aren't Just Out To Help Themselves Microbes that are resistant to the drug protect their weaker kin in the colony, HHMI researchers have found. The discovery upends traditional notions of antibiotic resistance and offers a target for new drugs against bacterial infections. |
Chemistry World
January 8, 2015
Matthew Gunther |
New antibiotic could treat infection while dodging resistance problems A new antibiotic that can kill life-threatening bacteria -- without them appearing to be able to develop resistance to the drug -- has been discovered by a team of scientists. |
Chemistry World
May 12, 2011
Mike Brown |
Sugars recruited in fight against persistent infections Adding sugar to antibiotics can boost their effectiveness and prevent recurrent and chronic infections, according to researchers in the US. |
Chemistry World
April 4, 2007
John Bonner |
Antibiotic Combinations Tackle Resistance Using combinations of certain antimicrobial compounds can favor the growth of non-resistant strains of bacteria at the expense of resistant ones. The surprising finding may provide a general strategy to help eradicate strains of bacteria that are resistant to antibiotic therapy. |
Chemistry World
August 6, 2007
Tom Westgate |
Unique Antibiotic Beats Superbugs' Resistance The discovery of how a unique antibiotic kills its targets has uncovered a new way to tackle resistant superbugs. A team of chemists and structural biologists have studied how the natural antibiotic lactivicin interacts with a crucial bacterial protein. |
Chemistry World
December 4, 2009
Lewis Brindley |
Potent two-pronged antibiotic provides hope for future drugs A two-headed compound obtained from soil bacteria may hold the key to developing the next generation of antibiotics, researchers in the UK report. |
American Family Physician
December 15, 2000 |
Antibiotics: When They Can and Can't Help Antibiotics are strong medicines that can stop some infections and save lives. When they aren't used the right way, antibiotics can cause more harm than good. You can protect yourself and your family by knowing when you should use antibiotics and when you should avoid them... |
Chemistry World
April 27, 2011
Carol Stanier |
Drug cocktails greater than the sum of their parts Canadian scientists have shown that combining an antibiotic that is past its prime with other drugs can give it a new lease of life. |
Chemistry World
June 28, 2013
Emma Stoye |
Antibiotic killing mechanism debate continues Antibiotics can kill bacteria without the need for reactive oxygen species. That's the claim of new research, which has added new evidence into the emerging debate over how antibiotics exert their lethal effects. |
Chemistry World
March 13, 2013
Ned Stafford |
Antibiotic resistance is a 'ticking time bomb' Global research efforts to develop new antibiotics need to be accelerated urgently, the UK government's chief medical officer has warned. She adds that that new drugs are desperately needed to fight the 'catastrophic threat' of growing antimicrobial resistance. |
American Family Physician
October 1, 2006 |
Antibiotics: When They Can and Can't Help What are antibiotics?... Do antibiotics always work?... What is bacterial resistance?... What can I do to help myself?... etc. |
Chemistry World
October 8, 2013
David Bradley |
3D printing bacteria Jason Shear and colleagues at the University of Texas, US, have developed a 3D printing technique that lets them 'construct' defined bacterial communities so that short-range chemical communications and physical interactions between bacteria can be investigated more systematically than ever before. |
Chemistry World
July 1, 2013
James Urquhart |
Antibiotic research hits a sweet spot UK researchers have found a way to weaken the molecular armour of Escherichia coli to allow the host's immune system to attack and kill the pathogen. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
July 30, 2007
Sarah Houlton |
Global Report: Make Resistance Futile Patients are losing the battle against bacteria. Can pharma be convinced to swing the sword of new antibiotic development? |
Chemistry World
April 24, 2006
Jon Evans |
Putting Some Backbone Into Bacterial Killers Chemists developed a novel folded oligomer (foldamer) that is highly effective at puncturing bacteria and could form the basis for a novel class of antibiotics. |
Chemistry World
January 30, 2015
Rebecca Trager |
Billion dollar package unveiled to fight antibiotic resistance President Obama has made a huge investment in the fight against antibiotic resistant bacteria |
Chemistry World
January 10, 2010
Simon Hadlington |
Antibiotic decay products reverse resistance In a colony of bacteria living in the presence of an antibiotic in natural environments, individuals that are sensitive to the antibiotic can co-exist with those that are resistant, whereas logic would dictate that only resistant bacteria should survive. |
Chemistry World
July 15, 2010
Matt Wilkinson |
Biotechs plot path of least resistance Biopharmaceutical companies are moving into antibiotics, and filling the void left by big pharma. |
Chemistry World
April 3, 2008
Philip Ball |
Antibiotic-Eating Bacteria Found in Soil Scientists in the US have found that soil is full of bacteria that will feed and grow on antibiotics the very compounds created to kill them. |
The Motley Fool
May 12, 2004
Charly Travers |
Cubist Addresses a Niche Market This small firm is developing antibiotics to meet a medical need. |
Chemistry World
July 26, 2012
Derek Lowe |
Screen shots You might not think that the makeup of a compound screening collection could set off many arguments, but there are a few issues there that will do the trick almost every time. |
American Family Physician
January 15, 2004 |
Antibiotics: When They Can and Can't Help What are antibiotics?... Do antibiotics work against all infections?... What is "antibiotic resistance"?... Why should I worry about antibiotic resistance?... How do I know when I need antibiotics?... How should I take the antibiotics that my doctor prescribes?... etc. |
Chemistry World
September 11, 2013
Andria Nicodemou |
Bacteria incriminated by their odor Researchers in Taiwan and the US have developed a device that uses the volatile organic compounds released by bacteria to identify the bacteria as they are cultured. |
Nutrition Action Healthletter
May 2000 |
Magic Bullets Under Siege ...Antibiotics---drugs that kill bacteria---account for much of our success in the war against infectious illness. But the miracle drugs of medicine are in danger... |
Chemistry World
December 4, 2006
Bea Perks |
Riboswitching Off Bacterial Infection A fresh chink in the biochemical armour of bacteria has been found by scientists studying how an antibiotic, first identified in the 1950s, attacks cells. |
Chemistry World
March 8, 2013
Simon Hadlington |
Battleground develops over antibiotic killing mechanism Two recent papers will require many in the field to re-examine and re-open the question of whether or not several different classes of bactericidal antibiotics do or do not work through a common mechanism. |
Chemistry World
December 10, 2013
Jonathan Wells |
Disarming bacteria to beat infection Researchers in Germany looking to find unprecedented ways of combating bacterial infection have demonstrated that certain small molecules can reduce the ability of Staphylococcus aureus to cause disease. |
Reactive Reports
March 2005
David Bradley |
Microbial Manufacturing A bacterium is a microscopic chemical factory producing antibiotics, immunosuppressants, and anticancer drugs no chemist can synthesize. but pharmaceutical companies have been tapping into microbial drug manufacturing for some time. |
Chemistry World
May 29, 2014
Carla Pegoraro |
Dual warhead kills and disarms bacteria A compound that kills bacteria and cleaves their DNA to prevent them passing on drug-resistant genes has been designed by researchers in India. |
Chemistry World
March 19, 2014
Emma Stoye |
Molecular drill bits attack tuberculosis Peptides that punch through bacterial cell walls while leaving human cells unharmed could open up new ways to tackle antibiotic resistance, say researchers in the US. |
Chemistry World
April 4, 2011
Carol Stanier |
Mighty micelles that make themselves Scientists in the US and Singapore have made self assembling micelles of cationic polymers that kill bacteria but are biodegradable - raising further hope of a nanotechnology solution to the problem of antibiotic resistance. |
American Family Physician
September 15, 2006 |
When Antibiotics Can Help A consumer's guide: What are antibiotics?... How do antibiotics work?... What is antibiotic resistance?... How can I prevent antibiotic resistance?... |
Chemistry World
March 19, 2007
Lionel Milgrom |
Gallium-Based Antimicrobials Antibiotic-resistant bacteria can be killed with gallium. US researchers used gallium as a 'Trojan horse' to fool bacteria into thinking they were feeding on iron. Bacteria need iron to survive, but they cannot distinguish between iron and gallium. |
Scientific American
May 2009
Melinda Wenner |
Quiet Bacteria and Antibiotic Resistance Bacteria devoted to growth instead of "quorum sensing" communication could beat antibiotic resistance. |
Chemistry World
October 29, 2013
Harriet Brewerton |
Paper device spots antibiotic-resistant bacteria Scientists in Canada have developed a paper-based device that checks if bacteria are resistant to certain antibiotics. The simple system could help users in remote areas. |
Chemistry World
May 6, 2014
Andy Extance |
WHO raises alarm on deadly bacteria The World Health Organization has warned antibiotic resistant bacteria could bring a nightmarish future, where seemingly trivial scrapes turn lethal, and currently routine operations become too risky to contemplate. |
Fast Company
May 2009
Elizabeth Svoboda |
Biotechs Wage War on Superbugs With antibiotic resistance on the rise, three biotechs are developing new ways to wage war on superbugs. |
Chemistry World
February 22, 2010
Hayley Birch |
Soil switches on antibiotic genes in bacteria So-called 'cryptic' bacterial genes that preside over the production of medically important compounds can be switched on using environmental triggers, German scientists have shown. |
Chemistry World
December 15, 2015
Michaela Muehlberg |
Bacterial identification gets a culture shock Scientists in the UK have developed a new tool to distinguish bacterial strains from each other. |
Chemistry World
September 12, 2006
Mark Peplow |
Bacteria Silenced by Conversation Stoppers Molecules that interrupt the chemical conversations of bacterial communities are showing early promise in beating the bugs. |
American Family Physician
March 15, 2001 |
Avoiding Resistance to Antibiotics-- When Do I Need an Antibiotic? When bacteria are exposed to the same antibiotics, after a while the antibiotic can't fight the germs anymore... |
Chemistry World
February 9, 2012
Jennifer Newton |
A new generation of tuberculosis drugs Scientists in India are targeting enzymes responsible for catalysing the formation of bonds to repair nicks in the phosphodiester backbone of DNA - called DNA ligases - to tackle the ever-growing health concern of multi-drug resistant bacteria. |
Chemistry World
August 22, 2012
Alisa Becker |
Trojan horse tuberculosis treatment The emergence of drug resistant bacterial strains has led to an urgent need for new antibiotic agents. Scientists in the US are utilizing the iron uptake pathway of Mycobacterium tuberculosis as a 'Trojan horse' approach to tuberculosis treatment. |
Chemistry World
August 25, 2010
Phillip Broadwith |
Antibiotic nanoparticles go for gold Chemists in the UK and India have developed a simple, one step synthesis of gold nanoparticles incorporating an antibiotic, without using any other chemicals. |
Chemistry World
September 19, 2008
John Bonner |
Filling the antibiotic gap Resistance to currently available antibacterial drugs is causing growing concern among doctors who find themselves unable to treat common infections |
Chemistry World
June 18, 2015
Emma Stoye |
Crowdsourcing compounds to tackle antibiotic resistance Chemists around the world are being called on to donate samples of novel compounds they have synthesized to a crowdsourcing project that aims to find new antibiotics. |
IEEE Spectrum
February 2009
Monica Heger |
Computer-Designed Drugs Could Thwart Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Researchers use computer algorithms to tweak enzymes that make antibiotics |
Chemistry World
November 5, 2013
Emma Stoye |
Copper signals warn bacteria of antibiotic assault Copper is known for its antimicrobial properties, but new research suggests that copper signalling within bacterial cells may also play an important role in antibiotic resistance. |
Chemistry World
May 6, 2015
Matthew Gunther |
Zombie cells may rise up to kill infections The worst fears of Hollywood may yet become a reality as chemists in Israel have found dead bacteria, killed with silver, may be able rise up like 'zombies' and go on to kill surviving pathogens. |
