Through this study there is a prospect of
a new type of antibiotics «turning off» the oxygen only to the harmful bacteria cells, not to human cells.
We are now working on how to target RNase E with
a new type of antibiotic drug.
Not exact matches
The court ruling, won by the Natural Resources Defense Council in
New York, commits the FDA to reconsider a ban first proposed in 1977 on the non-therapeutic farmyard use
of penicillin and two other
types of antibiotics called tetracyclines in animal feed.
New investigations show that when a certain
type of antibiotic is phased in, the abundance
of resistant genes in soil increases.
The research, publishing on March 24 in the Open Access journal PLOS Biology, identifies 122
new types of RNA bacteriophages in diverse ecological niches, providing an opportunity to define their contributions to ecology, and potentially to fight bacterial infections, particularly those resistant to
antibiotics.
The Salford team — which specialises in the discovery
new non-toxic therapies — and has published substantially on the anti-cancer impacts
of Vitamin C and
antibiotics — is calling the discovery the start
of a
new type of chemotherapy, and they even have a name for it «Mitoflavoscins».
When U.S. physicians prescribe
antibiotics, more than 60 percent
of the time they choose some
of the strongest
types of antibiotics, referred to as «broad spectrum,» which are capable
of killing multiple kinds
of bacteria, University
of Utah researchers show in a
new study.
He and colleagues from the University
of Oregon, Reed College and Osaka University in Japan decided to look at actinomycin D, an
antibiotic currently used to treat certain
types of cancers by preventing cancer cells from transcribing, or copying, essential cancer information to
new cells.
Investigations based on these proteins might lead to
new ways to combat the disease, including a vaccine,
new types of drugs to block the growth
of the bacteria, or even restoring the efficacy
of some older
antibiotics that have lost their usefulness, said Aleksandra Sikora, an assistant professor in the OSU College
of Pharmacy.
Among the 10,000 organisms and 25
antibiotics they grew in this
new type of culturing method is Teixobactin.