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A gold pill could be our superbug secret weapon
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A gold pill could be our superbug secret weapon

By Bronwyn Thompson April 10, 2023 The future path of antibiotics may be paved in gold Depositphotos There’s no underselling the role antibiotics has had on our lives; when widespread use of penicillin ushered in the ‘golden age’ of antibiotics after World War II, and discovery of many new antibiotics, the infectious diseases that used...

A molecular machine’s secret weapon exposed
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A molecular machine’s secret weapon exposed

COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY IMAGE: KATARINA MEZE, THE FORMER GRADUATE STUDENT IN THE JOSHUA-TOR LAB WHO LED THIS STUDY, STANDING NEXT TO THE LAB’S CRYO-EM IMAGING MACHINE. THE MACHINE ALLOWS SCIENTISTS TO FREEZE MOLECULES IN PLACE TO STUDY THEIR STRUCTURE AND GEOMETRY. CREDIT: JOSHUA-TOR LAB/CSHL RNAs are having a moment. The foundation of COVID-19 vaccines,...

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Are Your Patients Using This Anti-COVID Secret Weapon?

Lisa Jhung January 10, 2023 If your patients vowed to start exercising this year, here’s another incentive to help them stick to their guns: They could protect themselves from potentially devastating COVID-19 outcomes like hospitalization and even death. The evidence is piling up that physical activity can lower the risk of getting very sick from COVID. The CDC,...