Tag: Antibiotics
An ambitious plan to stop the rise of superbugs
David Pride, University of California San Diego
Antibiotic resistance is here to stay, but that doesn’t mean we can’t do anything to stop it.
A headline...
Bacteria live on our eyeballs — and understanding their role could...
Tony St. Leger, University of Pittsburgh
You may be familiar with the idea that your gut and skin are home to a collection of microbes...
Microbes that live in fishes’ slimy mucus coating could lead chemists...
Sandra Loesgen, Oregon State University
One day in the future, you may take a pill to treat an illness – and owe your recovery to...
Three reasons the US is not ready for the next pandemic
Christine Crudo Blackburn, Texas A&M University ; Andrew Natsios, Texas A&M University , and Gerald W. Parker, Texas A&M University
One hundred years after...
Bacteria may be powerful weapon against antibiotic resistance
Terence Crofts, Washington University in St Louis
When I was a child, my parents gave me a sweet pink syrup to destroy the bacteria causing...
Why you may not need all those days of antibiotics
Brad Spellberg, University of Southern California
A recent article in the British Medical Journal set off a bit of a firestorm with its claim that...
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Designer viruses could be the new antibiotics
By Luc Henry, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne
Bacterial infections remain a major threat to human and animal health. Worse still, the catalogue...
