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IIT Roorkee researchers discover molecule, it targets Carbapenem resistanc
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Roorkee (Uttarakhand) [India], April 6 (ANI): Researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee (IIT Roorkee) have deciphered a novel mechanism of Disulfiram in treating blood infections and pneumonia caused by the Metallo-beta-lactamase producing Acinetobacter baumannii, a nosoco
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Old drug may protect against COVID-19 lung injury, finds study
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
New York [US], February 9 (ANI): Lung infection and lung injury was the cause for many deaths in the second wave of COVID-19. Doctors everywhere tried their best to find a drug that cured the lung infection. Now, a new preclinical study from researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine and Cold Spr
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Study finds alcoholism treatment is potentially effective against COVID-19
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], Aug 5 (ANI): A team of chemists used molecular modelling to find out that two medications that have been known for a long time can be used to fight SARS-CoV-2. These are disulfiram, which is used to treat alcoholism, and neratinib, an experimental drug being used to treat br
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