To kill these bacteria , while reducing the ability of human cells , cigarettes , as an alternative to a healthy electronic cigarette in the laboratory studies , and drug resistance , the manufacturer is potentially Despite being touted the ...
A team of University of Notre Dame researchers led by Mayland Chang and Shahriar Mobashery have discovered a new class of antibiotics to fight bacteria such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and other drug-resistant ...
Tags: Chemists, New Class, Antibiotics
A University of Otago, New Zealand, research breakthrough from the Sir John Walsh Research Institute is helping pave the way for novel antifungal drugs designed to overcome the world-wide problem of growing resistance to current treatments. ...
Tags: Aids, Drug Resistance, expand the array of antifungal treatments
US-based FOB Synthesis and AstraZeneca have entered into a research and development option and license agreement for the development of a novel antibiotic for the treatment of drug-resistant bacterial infections. The new antibiotics will ...
Tags: FOB, BLI, AstraZeneca
Going barefoot in parts of Africa, Asia and South America contributes to hookworm infections, which afflict an estimated 700 million of the world's poor. The parasitic worm lives in the soil and enters the body through the feet. By feeding ...
A small study by investigators from the Johns Hopkins Children's Center and Byramjee Jeejeebhoy Government Medical College in India reveals high prevalence of tuberculosis (TB) infection among young children, troubling rates of disseminated ...
Martin Nielsen, DVM, PhD, Dipl. EVPC, equine parasitologist, veterinarian, and assistant professor at the University of Kentucky (UK) Gluck Equine Research Center, has launched the first research crowdfunding project at UK and possibly the ...
It won't all harm you, but some of it might. That's the caveat in the latest Consumer Reports analysis of tests on raw chicken breasts purchased at retailers nationwide. The analysis found that 97 percent of tested chicken breast samples ...
Tags: raw chicken breasts, intestinal bacteria, food safety, E.coli
Pathogenica and Illumina have entered into an agreement to co-market a new version of the former’s HAI BioDetection kit in the Asia Pacific region. Currently under development and compatible with Illumina's MiSeq benchtop sequencing ...
Tags: Biodetection Kit, Medicine
Clinical-stage pharmaceutical company Cempra has received a notification of patent allowance from the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for taksta loading dose formulation. With the possibility for extension, the patent entitled ...
UK-based drug discovery and development company Redx Pharma is planning to open a new £10.5m research and development facility at AstraZeneca's Alderley Park site in Cheshire, England. The new venture, Redx Anti-Infectives, will ...
Tags: Redx Pharma, Medicine
Last fall I flew halfway across the country to go grocery shopping with Everly Macario. We set out from her second-story apartment in Hyde Park near the University of Chicago and walked to the supermarket to buy a couple of?rib?steaks?that ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Agilent Technologies Inc and SRI International have announced they have signed a licensing agreement to offer laboratory research customers a package that combines Agilent’s latest release of GeneSpring GX, GeneSpring NGS, Mass ...
ALK has entered into an collaboration agreement to supply its FDA approved skin test for the diagnosis of penicillin allergy, PRE-PEN (benzylpenicilloyl polylysine injection USP), to HealthTrust Purchasing Group. Under the agreement, ...
Tags: ALK, collaboration agreement, skin test, penicillin allergy, PRE-PEN
Veredus Laboratories, a Singapore-based subsidiary of STMicroelectronics, has introduced a multiplexed molecular diagnostic platform for identifying the specific mycobacterium causing the infection and drug resistance. The VereMTB ...
Tags: Veredus, diagnostic platform, mycobacterium, drug resistance