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Scientists discover new antibiotic in tropical forest

October 8, 2019 0 Comments Diseases and Conditions, Genes, Infectious Diseases, Medical Topics, Pharmaceuticals, Pharmacology, Today's Healthcare, Vegetarian

Scientists have discovered an antibiotic produced by a soil bacterium from a Mexican tropical forest that may help lead to a 'plant probiotic,' more robust plants and other antibiotics. Probiotics, which provide friendlier bacteria and health benefits for humans, can also be beneficial to plants, keeping them healthy and more robust. The new antibiotic, known as phazolicin, prevents harmful bacteria from getting into the root systems of bean plants.

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New study is 'chilling commentary' on future of antibiotics

October 7, 2019 0 Comments Bacteria, Biotechnology, Economics, Infectious Diseases, Microbes and More, Pharmaceuticals, Pharmacology, Public Health, Scientific Conduct

The health care market is failing to support new antibiotics used to treat some of the world's most dangerous, drug-resistant 'superbugs,' according to a new analysis.

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Just add water: Chemists suggest a fix for insoluble drugs

October 3, 2019 0 Comments Chemistry, Controlled Substances, HIV and AIDS, Inorganic Chemistry, Nature of Water, Organic Chemistry, Pharmaceuticals, Pharmacology

Stable metal organic frameworks are prized for their ability to capture carbon dioxide or harvest atmospheric water, but researchers have developed a use for unstable metal organic frameworks: as a system for drug delivery.

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Chemicals for pharmaceuticals could be made cheaper and greener by new catalysts

October 1, 2019 0 Comments Chemistry, Consumer Electronics, Diseases and Conditions, Materials Science, Organic Chemistry, Pharmaceuticals, Pharmacology, Triglycerides

High value chemicals used to make pharmaceuticals could be made much cheaper and quicker thanks to a series of new catalysts.

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How fungus-farming ants could help solve our antibiotic resistance problem

September 27, 2019 0 Comments Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Diseases and Conditions, Foodborne Illness, Genes, Infectious Diseases, Pharmaceuticals, Pharmacology, Today's Healthcare

For the last 60 million years, fungus-growing ants have farmed fungi for food. In their cultivation of those fungi, they've successfully relied on bacteria-produced antimicrobial ingredients to protect their crops from other species of parasitic fungi. Now, researchers say they are looking to these ants to find new ways to stop or slow the evolution of antibiotic resistance that now presents a threat to modern medicine.

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Scientists tackle potential drug resistance by using new single-cell genetic method

September 25, 2019 0 Comments Brain Tumor, Cancer, Diabetes, HIV and AIDS, Lung Cancer, Personalized Medicine, Pharmaceuticals, Pharmacology

Using a new technique that can identify genetic profiles of individual cells, researchers modeled a breast cancer tumor's potential resistance to a drug, and then identified a drug combination that reversed that resistance.

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Missing electrons reveal the true face of a new copper-based catalyst

September 24, 2019 0 Comments Chemistry, Dietary Supplements and Minerals, Healthy Aging, Inorganic Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Pharmaceuticals, Physics, Vitamin

New research has resulted in a reactive copper-nitrene catalyst that pries apart carbon-hydrogen (C-H) bonds and transforms them into carbon-nitrogen (C-N) bonds, which are a crucial building block for chemical synthesis, especially in pharmaceutical manufacturing.

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New class of antibiotic candidates for fighting against superbugs

September 24, 2019 0 Comments Bacteria, Biology, Biotechnology, Infectious Diseases, Lung Cancer, Microbes and More, Pharmaceuticals, Pharmacology

Scientists have developed a new class of antibiotic drug candidates which has high potential to be developed into a new generation of antibiotics fighting against multi-drug resistant superbugs including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).

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Hook-on drugs: New delivery strategy for K-Ras disruption

September 24, 2019 0 Comments Biochemistry, Chemistry, Human Biology, Lung Cancer, Nature of Water, Organic Chemistry, Pharmaceuticals, Pharmacology

Scientists have succeeded in designing a compound to hook onto the pocket of the enzyme FTase and GGTase I, thereby inhibiting K-Ras. Scientists have worked to concoct an effective drug to target K-Ras proteins which cause cancer when they mutate. It is difficult to infiltrate K-Ras due to a lack of interactive pockets, so a strategy was devised to attack the necessary enzyme in the lipid modification of K-Ras.

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Breakthrough in understanding enzymes that make antibiotic for drug-resistant pathogen

September 24, 2019 0 Comments Bacteria, Biochemistry Research, Biology, Cystic Fibrosis, Infectious Diseases, Microbes and More, Pharmaceuticals, Pharmacology

One of the WHO's 3 critical priority pathogens, Acinetobacter baumannii, for which new antibiotics are urgently needed is one step closer to being tackled, as researchers have made a breakthrough in understanding the enzymes that assemble the antibiotic enacyloxin.