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Scientists Create Bacteria-Killing Molecules From Wasp Venom

Luana Steffen
In 1928, the first proper antibiotic was accidentally discovered by a professor of bacteriology named Alexander Fleming. Antibiotics became one of the most significant scientific breakthroughs of the 20th century, preventing untold millions of deaths...
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Graphene-Wrapped Nanoparticles Kill Drug-Resistant Bacteria

Luana Steffen
Bacteria are adapting to antibiotics, and it’s becoming a serious public health threat. A considerable part of the reason is that the bacteria continue to pass resistance genes to each other. Thankfully, scientists at Rice...
HealthNature

Sea Organisms Are The New Natural Source of Breakthrough Medicines

Andrea D. Steffen
Believe it or not, most drugs available today are derived from natural sources. For example, Penicillin was identified from common bread mold and aspirin from the willow tree. And while nearly all drugs’ roots lie...
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Vitamin C Is Being Used As A COVID-19 Treatment In NY Hospitals

Andrea D. Steffen
New York hospitals are administering massive doses of intravenous vitamin C to patients with severe cases of COVID-19. This treatment is in addition to other medicines. It follows a promising report from Zhongnan Hospital in...
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Artificial intelligence Discovers Powerful New Antibiotics

Andrea D. Steffen
If bacterial resistance to antibiotics continues to escalate as dramatically as it currently is, it could kill tens of millions of people yearly worldwide by 2050. If scientists found a way to develop new drugs...
HealthScience

Gut Bacteria Protect Brain And Central Nervous System

Andrea D. Steffen
The body is truly an interconnected machine with vast multitudes of dependencies. A living body requires that different systems act symbiotically to ensure that individual systems work correctly. With much of our ancient health knowledge...
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Superbug Fighting Cannabis Compound, Cannabigerol

Michael Rodriguez
Cannabigerol (CBG) is the parent molecule from which other cannabinoids are synthesized. During the growth cycle of the cannabis plant, it is converted primarily into tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) or cannabidiol (CBD), leaving only 1% cannabigerol behind...
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New Antibiotic That Could Kill Superbugs Found In Gut Of A Tiny Worm

Andrea D. Steffen
All over the world, antibiotics are failing at fighting off infectious bacteria more and more every day. The hardest to kill class is called gram-negative bacteria – and they are getting really good at becoming...
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Taking Antibiotics Before Cancer Treatment Drastically Cuts Survival Time

Andrea D. Steffen
Timing is everything… especially when it has to do with antibiotic treatment in relation to immunotherapy. A study that was carried out by researchers at Imperial College London shows just how important timing with this...
HealthScience

Widely Used Antidepressants Rapidly Breed Antibiotic Resistance In The Lab

Andrea D. Steffen
According to new University of Queensland (UQ) study, a key ingredient in common antidepressants such as Prozac could be causing antibiotic resistance. So not only is the bacteria’s increasing resistant to antibiotics caused by the...