The human penchant for environmental destruction can be traced to historical greed for resources, power, and liberation from ...

One alternative to antibiotics is phage therapy, which harnesses viruses to attack bacterial cells. Conceived over a century ...

Increased rates of congenital syphilis in the United States and continuum may be due to systemic barriers to comprehensive care and treatment.

It’s like making maple syrup,” says Diane Wendt, a curator in the Division of Medicine and Science at the Smithsonian’s ...

or antibiotic history) or antibiotic-specific factors (e.g., maximum length of therapy and combination therapy). For instance, linezolid use may be limited to patients with methicillin-resistant ...

Phages, towards a targeted alternative to antibiotics Date: November 25, 2024 Source: Institut Pasteur Summary: With the rapid development of antibiotics in the 1930s, phage therapy -- using ...

The Supporting Information is available free of charge at https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jafc.4c07028. Synthetic routes of two magnetic probes; characterization ...

has a long history of commercial partnerships and technology transfers. Given that many biotech companies developing antibiotics are small and lack any kind of manufacturing capabilities of their ...

Portions of this paper were prepared for and presented at the International Conference on the Use of Antibiotics in Agriculture, organized by the National Academy of Sciences—National Research ...

Antibiotic selection, dosing, and route were at the discretion of the treating team. We excluded patients with severe immunosuppression, foci requiring prolonged treatment, single cultures with ...

“He must have been using antibiotics for a pretty long time through his early youth before cancer treatment. He also had a history of tobacco use, which is linked to antimicrobial resistance ...

From its humble beginnings as a mold to its widespread use in treating bacterial infections, penicillin's journey through history is a testament to human innovation and perseverance. Discovered in ...