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A recent study has shown that nanoplastics – plastic particles smaller than 0.001 millimeters – affect the body’s ability to absorb antibiotics, and may even lead to the growth of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.Continue ReadingCategory: ScienceTags: Mic… Continue reading Nanoplastics can render antibiotics less effective
A recent study has shown that nanoplastics – plastic particles smaller than 0.001 millimeters – affect the body’s ability to absorb antibiotics, and may even lead to the growth of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.Continue ReadingCategory: ScienceTags: Mic… Continue reading Nanoplastics can render antibiotics less effective
A. baumannii bacteria is a nasty antibiotic-resistant bug that thrives in hospitals, where it takes advantage of weakened immune systems. Researchers have now found the bacteria’s secret weapon and have ideas on how to use it for good.Continue ReadingC… Continue reading New nano-weapon discovered in use by menacing bacteria
Science’s war against the super-small and, sometimes, super-deadly bacteria that have evolved to resist destruction by antibiotics may have just enlisted new, unlikely allies: invertebrate creatures living in the frigid depths of the Arctic Ocean.Conti… Continue reading Plunging beneath the freezing sea to combat antibiotic-resistant bacteria
Researchers have combined the bacteria-killing actions of two classes of antibiotics into one, demonstrating that their new dual-action antibiotic could make bacterial resistance (almost) an impossibility.Continue ReadingCategory: Health & Wellbein… Continue reading New antibiotic nearly eliminates the chance of superbugs evolving
Antibiotic-induced disruption of the gut microbiome can compromise health and make people more susceptible to opportunistic infection by pathogens like C. difficile. The widespread rise of superbugs resistant to antibiotics further complicates their us… Continue reading Next-gen antibiotic kills superbugs but leaves good gut bacteria alone
Much has been made of the global rise in antibiotic resistance and its impact on the delivery of effective treatment, with good reason. The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that the misuse and overuse of antimicrobials, an umbrella term for medi… Continue reading Your doctor is prescribing antibiotics that won’t help – and may harm
A protein obtained from mussels could one day keep infections from occurring at the site of bone implants such as artificial hips. And while the protein does kill the microbes, it should still limit the development of antibiotic-resistant “superbacteri… Continue reading Mussel-protein coating keeps implants safe from infections
Bacteria often go dormant to avoid being wiped out by antibiotics or other threats, which makes treatment difficult. Now scientists have discovered a virus that can attack these sleeping bugs, clearing out infections effectively when paired with drugs…. Continue reading Newly discovered virus kills “sleeping” bacteria in superbug breakthrough
It has been known for some time now that chemicals produced by certain ants have antibiotic properties. For the first time ever, however, one species of ant has recently been observed actually using those chemicals to treat infected battle wounds on ot… Continue reading Ants produce life-saving antibiotics for treating infected wounds