An investor coalition worth $1.25tn is set to persuade 16 multinational companies to identify risks associated with industrial animal production and device strategies to roll out plant-based sources of protein. The coalition urges the ...
Dutch-based life sciences company DSM Food Specialties has gained validation for its testing tool Delvotest T, which helps detect up to 27 antobiotic residues in raw milk and dairy ingredients such as milk powders. A report published by ...
Tags: Dairy Products, Testing Tool
The World Health Organization has said that people across the world are alarmingly confused about the role of antibiotics, and that this ignorance is fuelling the rise of drug-resistant superbugs. Margaret Chan, Director-General of the ...
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Honey, that delectable condiment for breads and fruits, could be one sweet solution to the serious, ever-growing problem of bacterial resistance to antibiotics, researchers said here today. Medical professionals sometimes use honey ...
Tags: bacterial resistance, Health, Medicine, Honey
The system that allows the sharing of genetic material between bacteria – and therefore the spread of antibiotic resistance – has been uncovered by a team of scientists at Birkbeck, University of London and UCL. The study, ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Unravelling Bacterial Secretion System
A team of French investigators has discovered viruses containing genes for antibiotic resistance in a fossilized fecal sample from 14th century Belgium, long before antibiotics were used in medicine. They publish their findings ahead of ...
What is antibiotic resistance and is it correct to describe it as a ‘looming global threat’? Antibiotic resistance is a consequence of antibiotic use. Bacteria adapt to the threat of antibiotics using mechanisms to overcome ...
Tags: Addressing Antibiotic Resistance, bacteria, implementing policies
An international team of researchers have discovered a 'microbial Pompeii' preserved on the teeth of skeletons around 1,000 years old. The key to the discovery is the dental calculus (plaque) which preserves bacteria and microscopic ...
NPS MedicineWise is urging all health professionals to take the pledge to fight antibiotic resistance after new research shows that making a public commitment leads to significant improvements in antibiotic prescribing. The study, ...
As the New Year kicks off and resolutions become reality, cranberry juice lovers can feel good knowing their favorite cranberry products are the perfect solution to a healthy 2014. A recent study published in Nutrients, a peer-reviewed ...
Scientists at the University of California, San Diego have developed a new genetic platform that allows efficient production of naturally occurring molecules, and have used it to produce a novel antibiotic compound. Their study, published ...
The Salmonella Heidelberg outbreak at a Tennessee prison that has sent two of the nine infected inmates to the hospital is a subject of a new report pointing to a larger investigation from the federal Centers for Disease Control and ...
Scientists have made an important advance in understanding how a subset of bacterial cells escape being killed by many antibiotics. Cells become "persisters" by entering a state in which they stop replicating and are able to tolerate ...
Tags: Bacterial Cells, Antibiotics, Subset of Bacterial Cells
Scientists have made an important advance in understanding how a subset of bacterial cells escape being killed by many antibiotics. Cells become "persisters" by entering a state in which they stop replicating and are able to tolerate ...
Tags: bacterial cells, antibiotics, antibiotic resistance, persister cells
Biocides used in the food industry at sublethal doses may be endangering, rather than protecting, public health by increasing antibiotic resistance in bacteria and enhancing their ability to form harmful biofilms, according to a study ...
Tags: biocides, antibiotic resistance, food industry, harmful biofilms