UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND IMAGE: BACTERIA GROWING IN THE SHAPE OF THE SYNTHETIC CANNABIDIOL MOLECULE. CREDIT: INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR BIOSCIENCE, UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND. Synthetic cannabidiol, better known as CBD, has been shown for the first time to kill the bacteria responsible for gonorrhoea, meningitis and legionnaires disease. The research collaboration between The University of Queensland and Botanix Pharmaceuticals Limited could lead to...
by National Institutes of Health In a preclinical study, NIH scientists found that the commonly used antibiotic methacycline may be effective at combating the neurological problems caused by Zika virus infections. Here is a picture of a Zika-infected mouse brain from the study. Credit: Courtesy of Nath lab NIH/NINDS. In 2015, hundreds of children were born...
UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO IMAGE: PINK COLOR HIGHLIGHTS THE LOCATIONS OF SIX AMINO ACIDS THAT WERE ALTERED IN THE SYNTHESIZED VERSIONS OF THE GRAMICIDIN A MOLECULE. A TEAM FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO DEPARTMENT OF. Physicians and scientists have long searched the natural world for chemicals that can improve human health. However, evolutionary selection optimized natural...
by Anne M Stark, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Results indicate that treatment with the antibiotics prior to a severe articular injury slows down the development of post-traumatic osteoarthritis (PTOA) by enhancing the healing capabilities of the immune response. Credit: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Tearing an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) can be an excruciatingly painful injury. Nearly...
Interview conducted by Emily Henderson, B.Sc. Professor Guillermo Montoya spoke to News-Medical on his research that involved visualizing the largest and most complex CRISPR system, which could have potential applications in biomedical diagnostics. What provoked your research into CRISPR? My interest in protein-DNA interactions and genome editing started a while ago when I collaborated with...
The Vanderbilt Laboratory for Biosynthetic Studies, led by Brian Bachmann, professor of chemistry, has discovered a naturally occurring compound that is resilient to antibiotic resistance because of its rare properties. Antibiotic resistance, the ability of bacteria to evade antibiotic treatment, has been identified by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as one of the...
A new technique could help reduce antibiotic prescribing by predicting which drugs could be effective in fighting bacteria within minutes. Scientists at the University of Exeter have developed the method, which allows users to see whether a bacterium is likely to respond to antibiotics. The research is currently in early stages of development, and the...
By Emily Henderson, B.Sc. What led you to carry out this research? When I (James) started graduate school, I had never worked in bacteria before. I originally worked with Drosophila, but when I joined Zemer’s lab, we basically came to the table with the question, “How can we address the global need for new antibiotics...
by Emily Ayshford, University of Chicago More than 1.7 million Americans develop sepsis each year, and more than 270,000 die from it. The condition—which happens when the body has an extreme response to a bacterial or viral infection, causing a chain reaction that can lead to organ failure and death—has few strategies for treatment. That’s...
Researchers in Brazil were testing chloroquine in 81 hospitalized COVID-19 patients. About half were prescribed 450 mg twice daily for five days, and the others were prescribed 600 mg for 10 days, The New York Times reported. But within three days, some patients taking the higher dose developed serious heart rhythm disorders, resulting in 11...
