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fromNature
1 month ago
Medicine

A single course of antibiotics can cause lingering changes in gut microbes

Antibiotic courses cause gut bacterial diversity loss that persists for four to eight years after treatment.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago
Public health

Drinking from a fetid pond': superbug-creating genes found in UK's largest lake

Antibiotic-resistance genes, including last-resort carbapenem-resistant genes, have been detected in Lough Neagh, a major drinking water source for Northern Ireland, posing significant public health risks.
Medicine
fromWIRED
1 day ago

How AI Could Help Combat Antibiotic Resistance

Antibiotic resistance is a major public health crisis, leading to millions of deaths and necessitating improved diagnostics through AI technology.
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fromwww.npr.org
1 month ago

Here's some new dirt on a source of antibiotic resistance

Bacteria are increasingly resistant to antibiotics, with drought contributing to this rise in resistance and impacting human health.
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fromQueerty
1 week ago

There's a new sex party crasher in town... & he's drug-resistant and lives in your gut - Queerty

Drug-resistant Shigella cases in the US rose from 0% in 2011 to 8.5% in 2023, with no FDA-approved treatments available.
fromFast Company
3 weeks ago

AI is coming for superbugs

Antibiotics are essential for modern medicine, but bacteria are evolving and developing resistance, turning routine infections into life-threatening conditions. A global analysis estimates that antibiotic-resistant infections could cause over 39 million deaths by 2050.
Medicine
Science
fromNature
1 month ago

Zombieland: Genome transplant brings 'dead' bacteria back to life

Researchers have revived 'dead' bacterial cells by replacing their DNA with a working genome from another species, advancing genome engineering.
Science
fromNature
1 month ago

Synthetic circuits for cell ratio control - Nature

Synthetic biology enables artificial cell differentiation and division of labor by engineering genetic and epigenetic circuits that mimic natural stem cell asymmetric division processes.
Cancer
fromFuturism
1 month ago

Bacteria Engineered to Eat Tumors From the Inside

Researchers engineered Clostridium sporogenes bacteria to consume tumor cells from inside, offering a potential alternative to traditional cancer treatments.
Science
fromAxios
2 months ago

The narrow slice of data that worries biosecurity experts

Certain biological datasets that materially increase misuse risk should be governed like sensitive health records while most biological data remains openly accessible.
Science
fromScienceDaily
2 months ago

Gut bacteria can sense their environment and it's key to your health

Beneficial gut bacteria, especially Clostridia, detect diverse digestive chemical signals and move toward nutrients like lactate and formate to fuel the microbiome.
Public health
fromNature
1 month ago

Capturing dynamic phage-pathogen coevolution by clinical surveillance - Nature

Phage-inducible chromosomal island-like elements (PLEs) in Vibrio cholerae provide defense against ICP1 phage predation, influencing pandemic strain evolution and disease severity through dynamic phage-bacteria interactions.
fromwww.scientificamerican.com
1 month ago

First-of-its-kind vaccine protects children from deadly intestinal infections

In children below the age of five, whose immune systems are still developing, the infections can lead to malnourishment; they cause up to 42,000 deaths annually. Soon there may be a vaccine to protect against these infections. In the Lancet Infectious Diseases last month, scientists shared the results of the first study to evaluate the safety and efficacy of an ETEC-controlling vaccine in a large pediatric population in Gambia.
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