Medical Xpress

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

has isolated a type of bacteria in the guts of mice that break down nicotine. In their paper published in the journal Nature, the group describes how they isolated the bacteria and why their finding could reduce incidences of fatty liver disease in humans.

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Fierce Pharma

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Drugs tainted with impurities ranging from bacteria and particulates to likely cancer agents have triggered multiple FDA recalls in recent years. Drugs tainted with impurities ranging from bacteria and particulates to likely cancer agents have triggered multiple FDA recalls in recent years.

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Drug Discovery World

JANUARY 29, 2024

Researchers have found a virus that kills dormant bacteria, a discovery that could help to combat infections that can’t be treated with antibiotics. For the first time, ETH Zurich researchers in Switzerland have isolated a bacteriophage from rotting plant material that can attack and kill bacteria in a dormant state.

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Medical Xpress

APRIL 29, 2023

For a team of Canadian and French researchers, dark clouds on the horizon are potentially ominous not because they signal an approaching storm—but because they were found in a recent study to carry drug-resistant bacteria over long distances.

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Drug Discovery World

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

An Oxford University study has provided the first evidence that antibiotic resistant bacteria can travel from the gut to the lung, increasing the risk of deadly infections. . With AMR being an increasing concern in hospitals, preventing the spread of AMR bacteria to other vital organs such as the lung is critical in vulnerable patients.

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Medical Xpress

MARCH 1, 2023

A new study led by researchers at Harvard Medical School details the step-by-step cascade that allows bacteria to break through the brain's protective layers—the meninges—and cause brain infection, or meningitis, a highly fatal disease.

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Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Probiotic bacteria usually found in fermented foods, such as yogurt, sourdough bread, and miso soup, might help dispel the embarrassment of persistent bad breath (halitosis), finds a pooled data analysis of the available evidence, published in the open access journal BMJ Open.

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Fierce Pharma

MARCH 7, 2024

The company republished an open letter reiterating its commitment to taking legal action against scam sellers after discovering bacteria and impurities in some of the fraudulent meds.

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Scienmag

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Bacteria are known for breaking down lactose to make yogurt and sugar to make beer. Now researchers led by Northwestern University and LanzaTech have harnessed bacteria to break down waste carbon dioxide (CO2) to make valuable industrial chemicals.

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Medical Xpress

MAY 8, 2023

Carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (CRAB) was brought into the ICU, in Hangzhou, on multiple occasions as patients were admitted, creating a large 'reservoir' of the bacteria which contaminated beds and equipment.

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Medical Xpress

JANUARY 5, 2023

Multiple sclerosis patients do not have the same bacteria in their intestines as healthy people. There are also differences in the composition and function of the bacteria in the intestines of multiple sclerosis patients, depending on whether their illness is active, and whether they are in treatment.

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Medical Xpress

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have identified the bacteria most commonly found in severe oral infections. Few such studies have been done before, and the team now hopes that the study can provide deeper insight into the association between oral bacteria and other diseases.

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Scienmag

JULY 21, 2022

A first-of-its-kind sprayable coating that can prevent the surface spread of infection from bacteria and viruses – including COVID-19 – over a sustained period –– has been developed by a team of Australian researchers.

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Medical Xpress

APRIL 20, 2023

Gut bacteria that break down a sugar called fucose could be dampening our immune response to the COVID-19 mRNA vaccine, according to a study led by researchers from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST).

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Medical Xpress

MAY 8, 2023

In recent years, interest in bacterial agents as anticancer therapeutics has grown, due to the ability of some bacteria to selectively grow inside hypoxic tumors, i.e., these cells do not receive rich oxygen supply. Researchers are constantly looking for new therapies with improved anticancer activity, fewer side effects, and lower costs.

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Medical Xpress

JANUARY 31, 2023

Carriers of a specific hidden bacteria have a 14% chance of developing an antibiotic resistant infection with 30 days of hospitalization, according to researchers from Amsterdam UMC.

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Scienmag

MAY 26, 2021

Naturally occurring gut bacteria can clean up chemo toxins in the body, study finds Credit: Northwestern University In the human gut, good bacteria make great neighbors.

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Medical Xpress

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Sugar substitutes found in many supermarket foods have been shown to kill off antibiotic-resistant bacteria that cause pneumonia and sepsis. Three artificial sweeteners used in products such as diet drinks, yogurts and desserts dramatically halt the growth of multidrug-resistant priority pathogens.

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Scienmag

MARCH 7, 2022

When exposed to stress, bacteria allow their metabolism to take a break during which they suppress, for example, the incorporation of proteins into membranes. Scientists from Marburg, Freiburg and Munich have discovered this by biochemically investigating the stress response of microorganisms.

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Scienmag

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Many have studied it in bacteria and now some have seen signs of it in, plants, flies, and even human brain tumors. For decades, a small group of cutting-edge medical researchers have been studying a biochemical, DNA tagging system, which switches genes on or off. However, according to a new study by researchers at the […].

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Scienmag

MAY 2, 2022

noa revealed that bacteria alter their swimming patterns when they get into tight spaces—making a beeline to escape from confinement. noa revealed that bacteria alter their […]. A newly published study by researchers at the University of Hawai‘i at M?noa Credit: Lynch et al.,

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Medical Xpress

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

coli (UPEC), the type of bacteria that cause urinary tract infections (UTIs) in humans. A team of researchers at Duke University has developed a vaccine against uropathogenic E. In their paper published in the journal Science Advances, the group describes how they made their vaccine and its performance when tested in mice and rabbits.

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XTalks

MAY 11, 2023

Cronobacter sakazakii , the bacteria linked to recent baby formula shortages and the Abbott infant formula recall, could soon join the federal disease watchlist. Also known as Enterobacter sakazakii , Cronobacter sakazakii is a bacteria that can cause severe infections, particularly in infants, and is associated with high mortality rates.

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Scienmag

APRIL 11, 2022

Generating power while purifying the environment of greenhouse gases should be achievable using bacteria. In a new publication, microbiologists from Radboud University have demonstrated that it is possible to make methane-consuming bacteria generate power in the lab. The study will be published in Frontiers in Microbiology on April 12.

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AuroBlog - Aurous Healthcare Clinical Trials blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Do bacteria mutate randomly, or do they mutate for a purpose? In 1943, microbiologist Salvador Luria and physicist turned biologist Max Delbrück invented an experiment to argue that bacteria mutated aimlessly. Using their test, other scientists showed that bacteria could acquire resistance to antibiotics […]

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Medical Xpress

MARCH 1, 2023

has discovered some of the ways gut bacteria can positively impact treatments for cancer. A large team of cancer researchers affiliated with multiple institutions in Germany, working with a colleague from the U.S.,

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Scienmag

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Researchers at Uppsala University have discovered that the ancestors of legionella bacteria infected eukaryotic cells as early as two billion years ago. It happened soon after eukaryotes began to feed on bacteria.

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Scienmag

JANUARY 19, 2021

Credit: University of Exeter Bioimaging Unit Scientists have discovered how bacteria commonly responsible for seafood-related stomach upsets can go dormant and then “wake up” Vibrio parahaemolyticus is a marine bacterium that can cause gastroenteritis in humans when eaten in raw or undercooked shellfish such as oysters and mussels.

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Scienmag

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

An international research team have discovered a specific type of gut bacteria in bees that can improve memory. An international research team have discovered a specific type of gut bacteria in bees that can improve memory.

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Scienmag

MAY 4, 2021

Scientists have revealed how an antibiotic of ‘last resort’ kills bacteria. Credit: IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON Scientists have revealed how an antibiotic of ‘last resort’ kills bacteria. The antibiotic colistin has become a […].

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Medical Xpress

MARCH 1, 2023

Previous studies suggested that gut bacteria, the microorganisms that live in the human digestive tract, play a role in Parkinson's disease, another neurodegenerative disorder, but the bacteria involved in DLB had not been identified.

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Medical Xpress

JANUARY 25, 2023

Scientific claims that babies harbor live bacteria while still in the womb are inaccurate, and may have impeded research progress, according to University College Cork (UCC) researchers at APC Microbiome Ireland, a world-leading Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Research Center, which led a perspective published today in the journal Nature.

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Scienmag

OCTOBER 28, 2021

A forgotten antibiotic, temocillin, led to lower selection of resistant bacteria than the standard treatment for febrile urinary tract infection, in a study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.

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Medical Xpress

MARCH 20, 2023

which makes Gerber Good Start SootheProTM Powdered Infant Formula, has recalled the product over concerns about contamination with a potentially dangerous bacteria. Perrigo Co.,

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Medical Xpress

JANUARY 4, 2023

One type of bacteria found in the gut may contribute to the development of Type 2 diabetes, while another may protect from the disease, according to early results from an ongoing, prospective study led by investigators at Cedars-Sinai.

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Scienmag

MARCH 21, 2022

This organization can be seen in, for example, the growth of the cells around the outer layer of plants and how bacteria arrange themselves in microspores in soil. Rather, as populations grow, individuals are organized around barriers in the landscape. In both these cases, […].

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Drug Discovery World

JANUARY 8, 2024

New antibiotics directed against the world’s highest priority bacteria, like Acinetobacter baumannii , require novel development paths. It inhibits the LptB2FGC complex, the machinery that assembles the outer membrane of gram-negative bacteria. One of the molecules, called zosurabalpin, killed multiple resistant strains of A.

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