Tag: Antibiotics
Are you really allergic to penicillin? A pharmacist explains why there’s...
Elizabeth W. Covington, Auburn University
Imagine this: You’re at your doctor’s office with a sore throat. The nurse asks,...
Genomic sequencing reveals previously unknown genes that make microbes resistant to...
Nneka Vivian Iduu, Auburn University
In the 20th century, when a routine infection was treated with a standard antibiotic,...
Fighting antibiotic resistance at the source – using machine learning to...
Abdullahi Tunde Aborode, Mississippi State University
Antibiotic resistance is a growing public health problem around the world. When bacteria...
Strep throat can easily be confused with throat infections caused by...
Allen Shaughnessy, Tufts University
“My sore throats, you know, are always worse than anybody’s.”
So declares...
Reconstructing ancient bacterial genomes can revive previously unknown molecules – offering...
Christina Warinner, Harvard University; Alexander Hübner, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, and Pierre Stallforth, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Microorganisms –...
Deadly fungus Candida auris is spreading across US hospitals – a...
Arif R. Sarwari, West Virginia University
In late March 2023, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention highlighted...
One easy way to fight antibiotic resistance? Good hand hygiene
Kristofer Wollein Waldetoft, Georgia Institute of Technology
Can washing your hands help stop the evolution of antibiotic resistance? Mathematically,...
Dangerous counterfeit drugs are putting millions of US consumers at risk,...
C. Michael White, University of Connecticut
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The battle over a global energy transition is on between petro-states...
Jennifer Morgan, Tufts University
Two years ago, countries around the world set a goal of “transitioning away from fossil...
