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Engineering an “invisible cloak” for bacteria to deliver drugs to tumors

The Pharma Data

Columbia Engineering researchers report that they have developed a “cloaking” system that temporarily hides therapeutic bacteria from immune systems, enabling them to more effectively deliver drugs to tumors and kill cancer cells in mice. Sheng Professor of Biomedical Engineering. Using Bacteria For Therapy.

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Leading freeze-drying systems suppliers for the pharmaceutical industry

Pharmaceutical Technology

Pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries widely use freeze-drying systems to protect vaccines, antibodies, antibiotics such as penicillin, blood plasma, proteins, enzymes, hormones, viruses, and bacteria from heat and minimise their biological activity.

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Scientists explore the action mechanism of a new antibiotic

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Credit: Timur Sabirov/Skoltech Scientists from Skoltech and MSU have investigated antibiotic nybomycin that could prove effective against bacteria resistant to other antibiotics. Their research was published in the journal Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy.

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Q&A: Cleaning up the antibiotic resistance problem in dentistry

Pharmaceutical Technology

In dentistry, anything we do in the mouth can cause bacteria to flow into the bloodstream, so we have to be particularly careful when treating people who have defective heart valves or immunocompromised people. They are also engineering nanoparticles where they go in and try and disrupt the biofilm that way.

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Could Fluoride be the Solution to Antibiotic Resistance? A New Study Weighs In

The Pharma Data

But scientists at the University of California (UC), Santa Barbara, believe fluoride may offer hope in the fight against antibiotic-resistant bacteria. The UC Santa Barbara research uses a method that addresses not only antibiotic overuse, but also the containment of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). “If

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Pfizer to Slash COVID-19 Vaccine Manufacturing Time by Almost 50 Percent

XTalks

The company is on track to fulfill the 200 million-dose order put in by the US government by May, but hopes to have more available as engineers improve systems on the go. As soon as vaccine vials began coming off the production line, engineers started analyzing how production could be made faster and better. coli bacteria.

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Gene Switch: A Novel Platform for Switching Genes On and Off

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coli bacteria, as well as lambda bacteriophage, can adapt to the alterations in the composition of their nutrient medium. Further, the transcription factors contain two molecular domains, the DNA binding domain and the activation domain. Therefore, engineered T-cell responses must be regulated to prevent severe side effects.

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