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Model can predict how drug interactions influence antibiotic resistance
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 31 (ANI): A model using simple changes in microbe growth curves could predict how drug resistance evolves in response to different antibiotic combinations, doses and sequences.
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New model can predict how drug interactions influence antibiotic resistanc
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 28 (ANI): Scientists have proposed a modelling framework that could predict how antibiotic resistance will evolve in response to different treatment combinations, according to a study published in the journal eLife.
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Antibiotics might help in treatment of melanoma
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 24 (ANI): Some antibiotics appear to be effective against a form of skin cancer known as melanoma, according to the findings of a new study.
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Antibiotics may help to treat melanoma: Study
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 22 (ANI): According to a new study, some antibiotics appear to be effective against a form of skin cancer known as melanoma.
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Effect of common COVID-19 antibiotic found similar to that of placebo
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
California [US], July 17 (ANI): The findings of a new study from UC San Francisco suggests that among non-hospitalized patients the antibiotic azithromycin was no more effective than a placebo in preventing symptoms of COVID-19. Despite widespread prescription of the antibiotic for the disea
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Significant surge in antibiotic sales in India during COVID-19 first wave,
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 2 (ANI): Antibiotic sales soared during the first COVID-19 wave in India last year, according to a study that suggests that drugs, especially azithromycin, were used to treat mild and moderate cases.
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Scientists need to rethink which genes linked to ageing process: Study
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 26 (ANI): Researchers at the National Institutes of Health fed antibiotics to fruit flies to better understand the role of bacteria in health and disease. They monitored the lifetime activity of hundreds of genes that scientists have traditionally thought control ageing
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Study suggests scientists may need to rethink which genes control ageing
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 25 (ANI): To better understand the role of bacteria in health and disease, researchers from the National Institutes of Health fed fruit flies antibiotics and monitored the lifetime activity of hundreds of genes that scientists have traditionally thought control ageing.
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New technique allows for identification of potential drugs to fight resist
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 20 (ANI): Researchers from Miami University in Ohio have optimised a new technique that will allow scientists to evaluate how potential inhibitors work on antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
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Study finds common antibiotic useful in accelerating recovery in tuberculo
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Singapore, June 20 (ANI): A clinical trial in 30 patients led by Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine researchers shows that doxycycline, in combination with tuberculosis treatment, reduced lung cavity size and increased other markers of recovery.
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Novel tuberculosis regimen shortens treatment course for patients
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 4 (ANI): During a recent study, researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina and elsewhere found a new antibiotic regimen that shortens the treatment course for patients with tuberculosis (TB).
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Theoretically, antibiotics can treat human diseases in addition to bacteri
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], May 25 (ANI): According to the findings of a study by researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago, the antibiotics used to treat common bacterial infections, like pneumonia and sinusitis, may also be used to treat human diseases, like cancer. At least, theoretically.
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