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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Drug Discovery World

APRIL 26, 2024

Researchers have found that vitamin D encourages the growth of a type of gut bacteria in mice which improves immunity to cancer. The team found that vitamin D acts on epithelial cells in the intestine, which in turn increase the amount of a bacteria called Bacteroides fragilis.

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Drug Discovery World

JANUARY 8, 2024

In two studies published in Nature , the authors demonstrate that the new class of drug candidates can effectively target Carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (CRAB), which is high on the World Health Organization (WHO) list of priority pathogens. One of the molecules, called zosurabalpin, killed multiple resistant strains of A.

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Bio Pharma Dive

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The drug, one of several GSK is developing for drug-resistant bacteria, has now succeeded in testing against two different infections.

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AuroBlog - Aurous Healthcare Clinical Trials blog

JANUARY 11, 2024

Researchers have identified an entirely new class of antibiotic that can kill bacteria that are resistant to most current drugs.

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Medical Xpress

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Public health officials are warning about an increase in drug-resistant strains of the bacteria Shigella.

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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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AuroBlog - Aurous Healthcare Clinical Trials blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

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STAT News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

health officials are advising people to stop using over-the-counter eye drops that have been linked to an outbreak of drug-resistant infections. NEW YORK — U.S. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday night sent a health alert to physicians, saying the outbreak includes at least 55 people in 12 states.

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Scienmag

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Credit: RIKEN A research team at the RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR) in Japan has succeeded in experimentally evolving the common bacteria Escherichia coli under pressure from a large number of individual antibiotics. In doing so, they were able to identify the mechanisms and constraints underlying evolved drug resistance.

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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

OCTOBER 14, 2021

In the fight against multidrug-resistant bacteria, scientists in Sweden have developed a new kind of antibiotic-free protection for wounds that kills drug-resistant bacteria and induces the body’s own immune responses to fight infections.

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The Pharma Data

MARCH 18, 2022

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. Using Bacteria For Therapy. ” The Ideal Bacteria.

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NPR Health - Shots

MARCH 3, 2023

The extensively drug-resistant strain is relatively uncommon overall, but it's being seen in more cases among adults. Shigella causes shigellosis, an inflammatory diarrhea. Image credit: Stephanie Rossow/Science Source)

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STAT News

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The Food and Drug Administration approved the first therapy using bacteria from stool samples to treat a bowel disorder on Wednesday, paving the way for several similar treatments in development.    The drug, called Rebyota, is given as a one-dose treatment for clostridium difficile infection s, commonly known as C.

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Medical Xpress

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The results, published today in Nature Communications, provide the first direct evidence of AMR bacteria migrating from a patient's gut microbiome to the lungs, increasing the risk of deadly infections.

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Scienmag

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Credit: UM photo MISSOULA – University of Montana researchers and their partners have discovered a slimy strategy used by bacteria to defeat antibiotics and other drugs used to combat infections afflicting people with cystic fibrosis. The research was published Feb. 23 in the journal Cell Reports.

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Scienmag

AUGUST 12, 2020

Credit: Purdue University photo/Mark Simons Your gut bacteria could say a lot about you, such as why you’re diabetic or how you respond to certain drugs. But scientists can see only so much of the gastrointestinal tract to study the role of gut bacteria in your health. What comes out of you is just a […].

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Drug Discovery World

AUGUST 7, 2023

” Edited by: Diana Spencer, Senior Digital Content Editor, Drug Discovery World The post Newly-discovered bacteria could prevent malaria appeared first on Drug Discovery World (DDW).

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Medical Xpress

MARCH 9, 2023

Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have discovered how healthy bacteria can escape the intestine, travel to lymph nodes and cancerous tumors elsewhere in the body, and boost the effectiveness of certain immunotherapy drugs.

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Scienmag

JUNE 11, 2022

Probiotic bacteria may enhance anti-cancer activities of the breast cancer drug tamoxifen and other endocrine-targeted therapies, which could help reduce the risk of estrogen receptive positive (ER+) breast cancer, suggests a new study presented Monday at ENDO 2022, the Endocrine Society’s annual meeting in Atlanta, Ga.

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Scienmag

JUNE 28, 2021

Traditional folk remedies in rural Italy inspired the research Credit: Quave Lab Scientists isolated a molecule, extracted from the leaves of the European chestnut tree, with the power to neutralize dangerous, drug-resistant staph bacteria. Frontiers in Pharmacology published the finding, led by scientists at Emory University.

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Bio Pharma Dive

JULY 22, 2021

A pill made of gut bacteria wasn't effective at treating ulcerative colitis in a closely watched study that was viewed as a proof point for the emerging field.

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Scienmag

MARCH 8, 2021

Credit: Shutterstock Researchers have identified a critical mechanism that allows deadly bacteria to gain resistance to antibiotics. The findings offer a potential new drug target in the search for effective new antibiotics as we face the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and infections caused by bacterial pathogens.

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Scienmag

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

International travellers are particularly vulnerable to virulent strains of drug-resistant bacteria – often picking up several different types during a trip through spending time in the company of other tourists, a new study reveals.

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Bio Pharma Dive

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Despite the growing threat of drug-resistant bacteria, few new antibiotics are reaching the market because of hurdles that biotech executives and experts say stand in the way.

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Scienmag

JANUARY 8, 2021

Now research reveals that bacteria too have internal clocks that align with the 24-hour cycle of life on Earth. The research answers a long-standing biological question and could have implications for the timing of drug delivery, biotechnology, and […].

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BioTech 365

JUNE 10, 2021

Biotechnology, Pharma and Biopharma News – Research – Science – Lifescience ://Biotech-Biopharma-Pharma: Making drug-resistant bacteria susceptible to antibiotics.Making drug-resistant bacteria susceptible to antibiotics aliu Wed, 06/09/2021 – 05:52 from FierceBiotech: Biotech [link].

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Scienmag

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Credit: University of Groningen Bacteria in the small intestine can deaminate levodopa, the main drug that is used to treat Parkinson’s disease. Bacterial processing of the unabsorbed fractions of the drug results in a metabolite that reduces gut motility.

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Scienmag

JUNE 19, 2021

Washington, DC – June 20, 2021 – Researchers from the Miami University in Ohio have optimized a new technique that will allow scientists to evaluate how potential inhibitors work on antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

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Scienmag

JANUARY 6, 2021

Credit: The Medina Group/Penn State Drug-resistant bacteria could lead to more deaths than cancer by 2050, according to a report commissioned by the United Kingdom in 2014 and jointly supported by the U.K. government and the Wellcome Trust.

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Scienmag

OCTOBER 28, 2021

A new study published in Nature reports on a new antibiotic that binds to the ribosome of bacterial cells and stops drug-resistant pathogens from making mice sick. A new study published in Nature reports on a new antibiotic that binds to the ribosome of bacterial cells and stops drug-resistant pathogens from […].

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AuroBlog - Aurous Healthcare Clinical Trials blog

JUNE 28, 2023

Golden staph are ubiquitous bacteria, living harmlessly on the skin or inside the nose of nearly one in three people worldwide. Some strains are also drug-resistant ‘superbugs,’ armed with features […] Yet they are duplicitous, too.

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Scienmag

AUGUST 17, 2020

The research advances understanding of bacteria vulnerability and opens the door to new methods of fighting drug-resistant bacteria Credit: Russell Cothren FAYETTEVILLE, Ark.

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Scienmag

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Despite their tiny size, these micro-robotic swimmers – whose movements were inspired by bacteria and sperm – could one day be a formidable new tool for targeted drug delivery. . — Scientists at Cornell University have created cell-size robots that can be powered and steered by ultrasound waves.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Bayer has agreed to make a payment of $40m for settling claims over the alleged violations of the False Claims Act linked to three drugs, Trasylol, Avelox and Baycol, the US Department of Justice said in a press statement. Simpson also alleged that the company sold these drugs for off-label usages that were not acceptable and essential.

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Scienmag

DECEMBER 10, 2020

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