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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.   |
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. |
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
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. |
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
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. |
AskMen.com
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. |
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. |
Chemistry World
June 28, 2009
Jon Cartwright |
Antimicrobial nanoparticles may help fight brain infections Antimicrobial nanoparticles that can cross the, almost impermeable, blood-brain barrier have been created by Asian researchers. |
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
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
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. |
Wired
September 25, 2007 |
Three Smart Things You Should Know About Bacteria The benefits of bacteria. |
Chemistry World
December 10, 2013
David Bradley |
Breaking the mold with recycled plastic drugs James Hedrick of the IBM Almaden Research Center, US, and colleagues have used supramolecular chemistry to self-assemble a range of polymer-like structures that display antifungal properties. |
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 |
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
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
July 7, 2013
Anthony King |
Green graphene band-aid Scientists have revealed that graphene kills bacteria by slicing through their membranes and yanking out their phospholipids. They say graphene could become a new type of 'green' antimicrobial material for everyday use. |
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
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. |
Science News
June 28, 2003
Ben Harder |
McDonald's Cutback in Antibiotics Use Could Reduce Drug-Resistant Bacteria The fast-food chain McDonald's announced on June 19 that it will stop its farms under contract from feeding chicken, cattle, and pigs certain antibiotics intended to accelerate the animals' growth. That step might slow or reverse the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria that can infect people. |
Bio-IT World
January 21, 2005
Mark D. Uehling |
How to Find a New TB Drug Scientists at Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) have announced the first novel class of antibiotics in 40 years. The diarylquinolines, as the new compounds will be known, could offer shorter treatment regimens and be a precise weapon against tuberculosis. |
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
March 6, 2013
Derek Lowe |
New antibiotics: what's the hold up? Money's a factor that could be adjusted by regulatory agencies, governments, and foundations. But no amount of cash will keep resistant bacteria from being the hard targets they are. |
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
July 8, 2014
Anthony King |
Call for new models to pay for antibiotics Governments will need to think seriously about changing the way they pay for the drugs. That's the conclusion of a report from the UK House of Commons science and technology committee. |
Chemistry World
January 20, 2014
Martha Henriques |
Fast test classifies meningitis bacteria Researchers in the UK have developed a new method that uses surface enhanced Raman scattering to quickly identify which meningitis causing bacteria is responsible for an infection. |
Chemistry World
March 28, 2012
Josh Howgego |
Teeth Fight Back Against Bacteria with Graphene Sensor A graphene-based sensor, which can transmit messages from molars, is shaping up to be an attractive prototype for the diagnostic tools of the future. |
National Defense
November 2010
Eric Beidel |
To Counter Bioterrorism, The Key is Boosting Immunity That's why Texas A&M University researchers are investigating ways to arm Americans against attacks involving toxins, viruses and bacteria. |
Chemistry World
October 14, 2011
James Mitchell Crow |
Twist in the tale to improve gene therapy New insights into the physical properties of different forms of DNA could help to improve gene therapy, chemists in Spain and India say. |
Chemistry World
October 9, 2006
Michael Gross |
Miniature Microbicides Researchers have created miniature antimicrobial peptides that contain only four (as opposed to the usual 12-50) amino acid residues combined with a fatty acid. |
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
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
December 11, 2014 |
Merck to buy antibiotics specialist Cubist Hours after the deal was announced, a US District Court invalidated several key patents for Cubist's top seller, Cubicin (daptomycin). |
IEEE Spectrum
February 2009
Monica Heger |
Computer-Designed Drugs Could Thwart Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Researchers use computer algorithms to tweak enzymes that make antibiotics |
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
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. |
American Journal of Nursing
June 2008
Mary C. Vrtis |
Is Your Patient Taking the Right Antimicrobial? Ways in which bacteria become resistant to antimicrobials and the prevalence and costs of health care-associated infections resulting from antimicrobial resistance. |
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
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
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
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. |
Reactive Reports
Issue 57
David Bradley |
A Spoonful of Slime Helps the Medicine Go Down The slime that covers the flat-fish plaice contains an antimicrobial agent that kills Staphylococcus aureus, the bacteria causing concern in hospitals across the globe as its drug-resistant strains spread. |
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
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. |
Science News
January 15, 2005
Christen Brownlee |
The Beef about UTIs E. coli from beef cattle or other livestock may be causing drug-resistant urinary tract infections in women. |
Scientific American
January 2007 |
Meet Resistance Head-On With resistance to antibiotics growing at an alarming pace among pathogenic bacteria, Americans must become more aggressive with regard to early intervention in the processes that foster 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. |
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
October 13, 2008
Hayley Birch |
Cantilevers bend over for drug detection Arrays of flexible microcantilevers - micrometre-thin diving boards - can be used as sensors to detect binding interactions between drugs and their targets |
