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Developing a Cervical Cancer Test That’s 100% Predictive

An interview with Professor Attila Lorincz, discussing the development of a new cervical cancer test that is able to predict cervical cancer and pre-cancer in 100% cases.

4 Feb 2019

Amprologix wins £1.2 million contract to tackle antimicrobial-resistant MRSA

Amprologix Limited, a University of Plymouth spinout company, has won a £1.2 million contract from the Department for Health and Social Care to accelerate development and scale up its lead antibiotic candidate to tackle antimicrobial resistant MRSA and related superbugs.

4 Feb 2019

Insect-borne microbes outperform soil bacteria in stopping certain dangerous antibiotic-resistant pathogens

Medicine was transformed in the 20th century by the discovery and development of antibiotics, the vast majority of which came from one source: soil bacteria.

4 Feb 2019

Understanding the defense mechanism of NETs could lead to better antibiotics

Experiencing a bacterial infection? You're generally prescribed antibiotics by your doctor. But how exactly do those antibiotics and your white blood cells work in tandem to improve your infection?

1 Feb 2019

Researchers uncover how the immune system protects from bowel cancer

Researchers from Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin have discovered a protective mechanism which is used by the body to protect intestinal stem cells from turning cancerous.

31 Jan 2019

Microbes on the tongue could be used to diagnose pancreatic cancer

Researchers have found that disruption in the microbial composition of the tongue coating could serve as a biomarker for early-stage pancreatic cancer.

31 Jan 2019

New approach helps clinicians to decide most effective antibiotic treatment courses

A scientific team from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and Cleveland Clinic has developed a new way to identify second-line antibiotics that may be effective in killing germs already resistant to a first-line antibiotic - potentially helping overcome antibiotic resistance.

31 Jan 2019

New type of genomic screening developed to produce novel drugs

Prof. Dr Mikhail Yakimov, a researcher from the Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, together with his colleagues from the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Norwegian Research Centre NORCE AS, School of Natural Sciences of CEU San Pablo University and Institute of Catalysis and Petrochemistry in Madrid (Spain), has conducted a study of universal transaminase enzymes.

31 Jan 2019

Vaccination with live S. mitis may offer protection from Streptococcus pneumoniae

Vaccinating laboratory mice with Streptococcus mitis bacteria prevents their virulent sibling, Streptococcus pneumoniae from infecting the mice.

30 Jan 2019

Megaphages detected in the intestinal tract of humans who eat high-fiber, low-fat diet

Viruses plague bacteria just as viruses like influenza plague humans. Some of the largest of these so-called bacteriophages have now been found in the human gut, where they periodically devastate bacteria just as seasonal outbreaks of flu lay humans low, according to a new study led by University of California, Berkeley, scientists.

29 Jan 2019

Stand Up To Cancer creates Dream Team focused on finding therapies for T-cell lymphoma

Stand Up To Cancer announced here today the creation of an $8 million Dream Team of top scientists focused on finding therapies for T-cell lymphoma, a rare cancer of the blood and immune system, using chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) to trigger the immune system to attack and destroy cancerous cells.

29 Jan 2019

Targeting Sirt-1 enzyme shows promise in controlling graft-vs-host disease

Bone marrow transplant offers patients with leukemia and lymphoma a potentially curative treatment. Bone marrow from the donor contains healthy immune cells, whose mission is to protect the body from invaders.

28 Jan 2019

FDA grants clearance to Hologic’s assay for detection of common sexually transmitted infections

Hologic, Inc. announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted clearance for its Aptima Mycoplasma genitalium assay, the first and only FDA-cleared test to detect this under-recognized but increasingly common sexually transmitted infection (STI).

23 Jan 2019

Study: Prior dengue immunity in children may be protective against symptomatic Zika

Children with a history of prior dengue virus infection had a significantly lower risk of being symptomatic when infected by Zika virus, according to a study in Nicaragua of more than 3,000 children aged 2 to 14 years.

23 Jan 2019

White blood cells linked to for asthma, allergies may be used to eliminate colon cancer cells

A new Tel Aviv University study finds that eosinophils -- white blood cells that may have played an evolutionary role in combating parasites, but which are today responsible for chronic asthma and modern allergies -- may be used to eliminate malignant colon cancer cells.

23 Jan 2019

Fecal transplant from certain donors better than others

Fecal microbiota transplantation or stool transplant from a donor is useful for patients infected with the deadly recurrent Clostridium difficile that leads to severe diarrhea, pain and often serious consequences.

22 Jan 2019

Diversity among rural Africans extends to their gut microbiomes

Our microbiome, the complex community of bacteria, fungi, parasites, and other microorganisms in and on our bodies, reflects the way we live. If we own a pet, we likely share microbes with them. If we eat meat, the microbiome in our intestines may look different from that of a vegan.

22 Jan 2019

Study offers new hope for elimination of malaria

After major global successes in the battle against malaria, the positive trend stalled around 2015 - apart from in Zanzibar in East Africa, where only a fraction of the disease remains.

22 Jan 2019

Reintroduction project recovers current wild population of green turtle in Cayman Islands

The reintroduction program for the green turtle in the Cayman Islands is crucial in order to recover this species, which are threatened by the effects of human overexploitation, according to a study published in the journal Molecular Ecology and led by the experts Marta Pascual and Carlos Carreras, from the Evolutionary Genetics laboratory of the Faculty of Biology and the Biodiversity Research Institute of the University of Barcelona.

21 Jan 2019

Study shows how gut bacteria affect the treatment of Parkinson's disease

Patients with Parkinson's disease are treated with levodopa, which is converted into dopamine, a neurotransmitter in the brain. In a study published on 18 January in the journal Nature Communications, scientists from the University of Groningen show that gut bacteria can metabolize levodopa into dopamine.

18 Jan 2019

Microbiology News and Research

Developing a Cervical Cancer Test That’s 100% Predictive

Amprologix wins £1.2 million contract to tackle antimicrobial-resistant MRSA

Insect-borne microbes outperform soil bacteria in stopping certain dangerous antibiotic-resistant pathogens

Understanding the defense mechanism of NETs could lead to better antibiotics

Researchers uncover how the immune system protects from bowel cancer

Microbes on the tongue could be used to diagnose pancreatic cancer

New approach helps clinicians to decide most effective antibiotic treatment courses

New type of genomic screening developed to produce novel drugs

Vaccination with live S. mitis may offer protection from Streptococcus pneumoniae

Megaphages detected in the intestinal tract of humans who eat high-fiber, low-fat diet

Stand Up To Cancer creates Dream Team focused on finding therapies for T-cell lymphoma

Targeting Sirt-1 enzyme shows promise in controlling graft-vs-host disease

FDA grants clearance to Hologic’s assay for detection of common sexually transmitted infections

Study: Prior dengue immunity in children may be protective against symptomatic Zika

White blood cells linked to for asthma, allergies may be used to eliminate colon cancer cells

Fecal transplant from certain donors better than others

Diversity among rural Africans extends to their gut microbiomes

Study offers new hope for elimination of malaria

Reintroduction project recovers current wild population of green turtle in Cayman Islands

Study shows how gut bacteria affect the treatment of Parkinson's disease

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