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Study reveals half of lupus rashes harbour high levels of bacterial infect
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 7 (ANI): Lupus is a long-term autoimmune disease in which the body's immune system becomes hyperactive and attacks normal, healthy tissue. Scientists have found one side effect of lupus, that it could also make patients more vulnerable to a skin infection, or sprea
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These colour-changing bandages sense, treat bacterial infections
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 29 (ANI): Researchers have developed colour-changing bandages that can sense drug-resistant and drug-sensitive bacteria in wounds and treat them accordingly.
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Researchers develop new strategy to fight antibiotic resistance
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 18 (ANI): While traditional antibiotics are known to serve the purpose of killing or reducing the activity of individual bacteria, some bacteria become resistant to these antibiotics. In recent research, bioscience engineers have developed a new antibacterial strat
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Human foetal lungs harbour a microbiome signature, find researchers
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 18 (ANI): In a first time finding, researchers discover that the lungs and placentas of foetuses in the womb as young as 11 weeks after conception already show a bacterial microbiome signature, which suggests that bacteria may colonise the lungs well before birth.
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New strategy developed by researchers to fight antibiotic resistance
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 15 (ANI): Bioscience engineers have developed a new antibacterial strategy that weakens bacteria by preventing them from cooperating.
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Bioengineers opening up DNA to delete disease: Study
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 15 (ANI): To access previously inaccessible genes to delete disease, protein editorial assistants are clearing the way for DNA editors like bacterial defence system CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats).
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Pop singer Justin Bieber diagnosed with Lyme disease
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 9 (ANI): Pop-singer Justin Bieber on Thursday revealed that he has been recently diagnosed with Lyme disease which is a bacterial infection carried by ticks.
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In the neonatal care unit, experts find better protection for newborns
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 5 (ANI): A team of researchers reported that a new strategy has been developed to reduce the chances of protection of babies from parental infections.
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Researchers find better protective care for infants in neonatal care unit
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 2 (ANI): A team of researchers has reported the development of a new strategy for reducing the chances of protection of babies from parental infections.
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Babies in intensive care can be protected from parental bacteria, trial su
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 1 (ANI): Sick and premature babies who spend their initial days in a hospital's neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) are prone to bacterial infections with the delicate touch from their parents, but a recent study has developed a strategy that reduces the chance of
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Bacteria can 'outsmart' programmed cell death: Study
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Dec 25 (ANI): Certain bacteria can override a defence mechanism of the immune system, so-called programmed cell death, through inhibition of death effector molecules by their outer membranes components. Shigella bacteria, which cause diarrhoea, use lipopolysaccharides
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Study reveals excessive antibiotic prescriptions for children can harm the
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Dec 21 (ANI): While antibiotics are known for their properties to fight bacteria and are the most important type of antibacterial agent for fighting the bacterial infection, a new study suggests that excessive antibiotic prescriptions for children can harm their health
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