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Insured but still in debt: 5 jobs pulling in $100k a year no match for medical bills

Robert and Tiffany Cano of San Tan Valley, Ariz., have a new marriage, a new house and a 10-month-old son, Brody, who is delighted by his ability to blow raspberries.

28 Dec 2018

Irish soil contains bacterial strains effective against antibiotic-resistant superbugs

Researchers analyzing soil from Ireland long thought to have medicinal properties have discovered that it contains a previously unknown strain of bacteria which is effective against four of the top six superbugs that are resistant to antibiotics, including MRSA.

27 Dec 2018

Air pollutants trigger allergic cough in urban Indian population

Living in India and inhaling lungful of polluted air every day is like being a chronic smoker according to a recent report by India’s State-Level Disease Burden Initiative. This partly explains why many people in urban India have a persistent dry and hacking cough even if they don’t have asthma or have never smoked.

27 Dec 2018

Himalayan marmot genome offers clues to high-altitude adaptation

Himalayan marmots can survive at altitudes up to 5,000 meters in the Himalayan regions of India, Nepal, and Pakistan and on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau of China, where many of them face extreme cold, little oxygen, and few other resources.

27 Dec 2018

Study uncovers how skin ages, loses fat and immunity

Dermal fibroblasts are specialized cells deep in the skin that generate connective tissue and help the skin recover from injury. Some fibroblasts have the ability to convert into fat cells that reside under the dermis, giving the skin a plump, youthful look and producing a peptide that plays a critical role in fighting infections.

27 Dec 2018

Surfer's ear reveals important clues to lives of ancient pearl divers in Panama

While examining a skull from an ancient burial ground in a pre-Columbian village in Panama, Nicole Smith-Guzmán, bioarchaeologist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI), was surprised to discover an example of surfers' ear: a small, bony bump in the ear canal common among surfers, kayakers and free divers in cold climates.

24 Dec 2018

Bacterial resistance to last-resort antibiotic is spreading at alarming rate in Vietnam

Researchers have discovered that polymyxin E-resistant Escherichia coli is widely prevalent among people living in rural Vietnam.

21 Dec 2018

New bacteria-based drug delivery system could radically expand cancer treatment options

An interdisciplinary team of three Virginia Tech faculty members affiliated with the Macromolecules Innovation Institute has created a drug delivery system that could radically expand cancer treatment options.

21 Dec 2018

Study reveals high prevalence of colistin-resistant bacteria in residents in Vietnam

A team of researchers led by Osaka University examined the dissemination of colistin-resistant bacteria among residents of rural communities in Vietnam to find that the prevalence of colistin-resistant Escherichia coli in the intestines was extremely high, at about 70 percent.

21 Dec 2018

GW researchers receive NIH funding to study causes of high risk of heart disease in HIV patients

Atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease are major complications of HIV infection and cannot currently be treated by antiretroviral treatments.

21 Dec 2018

Even napping in contact lenses could lead to serious infection

The CDC has published six reports using real data on the seriousness of napping or falling asleep while wearing contact lenses.

20 Dec 2018

Pregnant women and extremely obese people at high risk of flu complications

Pregnant women and the extremely obese are among those at high risk for complications from the flu - including death - and should be tested and begin antiviral treatment promptly if they are sick enough to be hospitalized with flu symptoms, according to updated guidelines released by the Infectious Diseases Society of America.

19 Dec 2018

SLU researcher aims to eliminate TB with focus on high-risk patients

In a recent paper published in PLOS One, Soumya Chatterjee, M.D., assistant professor of infectious diseases, allergy and immunology at Saint Louis University, presents data to show that a focus on high-risk tuberculosis patients may be the answer to stalled progress in stamping out the illness in the United States.

19 Dec 2018

National Biofilms Innovation Centre award grant to Neem Biotech for novel anti-biofilm drug development

Neem Biotech, Welsh Wound Innovation Centre and Sheffield Collaboratorium for Antimicrobial Resistance and Biofilms Awarded NBIC Grant to Advance Development of Neem’s First-in-Class Treatments for Wound Infections.

From Neem Biotech 17 Dec 2018

New bacterial species may help fight obesity and metabolic disorders

The MyNewGut project has discovered new bacterial species and strains in healthy people that seem to be effective against obesity, metabolic and mental disorders related to stress and obesity (e.g. depression).

17 Dec 2018

RNA sequencing offers novel insights into the microbiome

Researchers have come up with a revolutionary strategy for studying the activity of the gut microbiome – using high-throughput sequencing of tRNA.

17 Dec 2018

Using machine learning to predict risk of developing life-threatening infections

Staphylococcus epidermidis is an ubiquitous colonizer of healthy human skin, but it is also a notorious source of serious nosocomial infections with indwelling devices and surgical procedures such as hip replacements.

14 Dec 2018

Recurrence of urinary tract infection may depend on bacterial strain, study shows

Genetically diverse bacterial strains that cause urinary tract infections differ in their ability to trigger protective immune responses in mice, potentially explaining why these infections frequently recur in many patients, according to a study published December 13 in the open-access journal PLOS Pathogens by Thomas Hannan and Scott Hultgren of Washington University School of Medicine, and colleagues.

14 Dec 2018

Face masks may offer protection against staph bacteria for hog farm workers and their household members

Face masks appear to provide important protection against drug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteria for hog farm workers and for household members to whom they might otherwise transmit the bacteria, according to a study led by scientists at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

14 Dec 2018

Adolescents who use cognitive reappraisal had better metabolic measures, shows study

Most teens get stressed out by their families from time to time, but whether they bottle those emotions up or put a positive spin on things may affect certain processes in the body, including blood pressure and how immune cells respond to bacterial invaders, according to Penn State researchers.

14 Dec 2018

Bacterial News and Research

Insured but still in debt: 5 jobs pulling in $100k a year no match for medical bills

Irish soil contains bacterial strains effective against antibiotic-resistant superbugs

Air pollutants trigger allergic cough in urban Indian population

Himalayan marmot genome offers clues to high-altitude adaptation

Study uncovers how skin ages, loses fat and immunity

Surfer's ear reveals important clues to lives of ancient pearl divers in Panama

Bacterial resistance to last-resort antibiotic is spreading at alarming rate in Vietnam

New bacteria-based drug delivery system could radically expand cancer treatment options

Study reveals high prevalence of colistin-resistant bacteria in residents in Vietnam

GW researchers receive NIH funding to study causes of high risk of heart disease in HIV patients

Even napping in contact lenses could lead to serious infection

Pregnant women and extremely obese people at high risk of flu complications

SLU researcher aims to eliminate TB with focus on high-risk patients

National Biofilms Innovation Centre award grant to Neem Biotech for novel anti-biofilm drug development

New bacterial species may help fight obesity and metabolic disorders

RNA sequencing offers novel insights into the microbiome

Using machine learning to predict risk of developing life-threatening infections

Recurrence of urinary tract infection may depend on bacterial strain, study shows

Face masks may offer protection against staph bacteria for hog farm workers and their household members

Adolescents who use cognitive reappraisal had better metabolic measures, shows study

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