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Battle royale: How bacteria fight antibiotics and up the ante in chemical warfare
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Battle royale: How bacteria fight antibiotics and up the ante in chemical warfare

by Delthia Ricks , Medical Xpress Inadequate development of new antibiotics and rising rates of resistance by bacteria to existing antimicrobials are dual forces pushing the world ever closer to a post-antibiotic era. It has been an 80-year war, the battle pitched by bacteria against the chemical warfare designed to knock out infections—and on multiple...

Researchers develop new approach to study the genetics of human disease
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Researchers develop new approach to study the genetics of human disease

by Sheila Evans, University of Chicago Medical Center Many heritable immune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and blood-cell related traits derive from critical proteins not being made or not functioning correctly. But exactly how a person’s genes, the regulation of these genes and how the resulting proteins interact to cause disease is not widely understood....

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Sofosbuvir rids organism of chikungunya and yellow fever viruses

A study performed at the University of São Paulo’s Biomedical Science Institute (ICB-USP) in Brazil shows that sofosbuvir, a drug used to treat chronic hepatitis C, is capable of eliminating chikungunya virus and yellow fever virus. “Human cells infected by chikungunya virus were treated with sofosbuvir, and the drug eliminated the virus without damaging any...