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  • AZ Giving Way to Early-Stage Biopharmas in Cheshire
    and housing a new team to develop drugs combating resistance to antibiotics and new medicines to tackle viral infections: "A particular focus will be hard-to-treat infections. ...
    5-7-2013
  • Gut Bug Vaccine May Alleviate Autism Symptoms
    professor Mario Monteiro, Ph.D. Although most infections are handled by some antibiotics, he says, a vaccine would improve current treatment. "This is the first vaccine ...
    4-25-2013
  • Five Japanese Pharmas Join Drug-Development Fund
    giants have joined with the European Commission to fund research into resistance to antibiotics and other health areas of priority. "The company considers this commitment as a ...
    4-8-2013
  • Literature Review: BioMAP—Antibiotic Fingerprints
    between 62 commercially available antibiotics and 83 marine natural product ... In this article,* the mode of action for antibiotics were mapped across 15 bacterial ...
    3-14-2013
  • Personalized Medicine: Why We Are So Excited
    ... The effective therapies we have, were developed intuitively or empirically, or were even discovered by chance. Examples include antibiotics, alkaloids, calcium channel blockers, ...
    3-8-2013
  • Xellia Enters Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria-Combating Collaboration
    Xellia Pharmaceuticals is developing new antibiotics effective against multidrug-resistant ... Xellia is aiming to develop new antibiotics that target Gram-negative bacterial infections ...
    2-26-2013
  • Antibiotic Resistance Linked to Bacterial "Stress"
    is thought to occur in the presence of antibiotics because resistance mutations confer ... Consequently, in the absence of antibiotics, nonresistant bacteria will outcompete ...
    2-22-2013
  • Cytokines and Growth Factors
    Animal-free (AF) cytokines and growth factors are available that are produced in plants and are thus free of animal components, serum traces, endotoxins, and antibiotics. They are ...
    2-15-2013
  • "Bad Bugs" Projects Launched by IMI
    work with industry scientists to guide clinical research and development of antibiotics. ... on identifying new ways of inserting antibiotics into bacteria and preventing that ...
    2-11-2013
  • Pergamum and Cadila Collaborate on Novel Therapy for Infections
    Jonas Ekblom, CEO of Pergamum. "There is a rapidly increasing global prevalence of antibiotics resistance that limits the therapeutic value of conventional products, and we think ...
    2-8-2013
  • Germ Blaster
    The player's health status is (naturally) given as the percentage of "immunity" remaining. To be successful, players must recognize that antibiotics won't defeat prions, nor will ...
    2-1-2013
  • Transgenic Salmon Prove Tough to Tackle
    ... Pollutants and waste concentrate in relatively calm, still water, and fish farms have contaminated coastal waters with waste and antibiotics. Farmed fish, concerned individuals ...
    1-23-2013
  • More VC Deals, Fewer Dollars in Q4
    President Obama quickly agreed to expand the agency's use of faster reviews to new antibiotics and other "breakthrough" drugs through the FDA Safety and Innovation Act. "A better ...
    1-18-2013
  • FDA OKs Protein Sciences' Egg-Free Flu Vaccine
    Flublok has three times the amount of active ingredient in traditional flu vaccines, and according to Protein Sciences contains no thimerosal or other preservatives, no antibiotics...
    1-17-2013
  • Scratching and Clawing for Sales
    ... While antibiotics and anti-parasitics are the two biggest classes of animal drugs, Dr. Carnevale said, "in companion animals, there's been a move recently for lifestyle type ...
    1-15-2013
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  • A Bioengineered Human Skin Tissue for the Treatment of Infected...
    Christina L. Thomas-Virnig, B. Lynn Allen-Hoffmann
    Advances in Wound Care
    Clinical Care Relevance: Pathogenic bacterial strains are increasingly developing antibiotic resistance, thereby forcing the clinician to use potent antibiotics with deleterious ...
  • Treatment Options to Manage Wound Biofilm
    Curtis E. Jones, John P. Kennedy
    Advances in Wound Care
    Based on current outcomes data, the most effective therapeutic options are topical (TPL) antibiofilm agents (ABF) combined with TPL antibiotics (ABX). In specific patients, ...
  • Interactive Tele-Education Applied to a Distant Clinical Microbiology...
    Denise B. Andreazzi, Flávia Rossi, Chao L. Wen
    Telemedicine and e-Health
    Abstract The microbiology laboratory provides a strategic support for infectious disease diagnosis and also alerts the medical community about bacterial resistance to antibiotics. ...
  • Novel Chimerical Endolysins with Broad Antimicrobial Activity...
    Sofia Fernandes, Daniela Proença, Cátia Cantante, Filipa Antunes Silva, Clara Leandro, Sara Lourenço, Catarina Milheiriço, Hermínia de Lencastre, Patrícia Cavaco-Silva, Madalena Pimentel, Carlos São-José, Herminia de Lencastre, Carlos Sao-Jose
    Microbial Drug Resistance
    Due to their bacterial lytic action, bacteriophage endolysins have recently gained great attention as a potential alternative to antibiotics in the combat of Gram-positive ...

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