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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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Scientists unveil mystery behind drug resistance in cancer through ecDNA f
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], December 27 (ANI): Researchers from Sanger Center here claimed that the free-floating circular DNA fragments, found in cancer cells, generate drug resistance in cancer.
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Study reveals how ecDNA forms, drives cancer drug resistance
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], December 24 (ANI): Researchers led by Ludwig San Diego Member Don Cleveland and Peter Campbell of the Sanger Center have solved the mystery of how free-floating circular DNA fragments, which are almost exclusively found in cancer cells, drive gene amplification to generate d
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Antarctic sea sponge may yield treatment for malaria
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Sept 11 (ANI): As current medications for malaria become less effective due to drug resistance, researchers have revealed that a peptide they isolated from an Antarctic sponge shows promise as a lead for new therapies.
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This new switch may control aggressive breast cancer
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Aug 31 (ANI): Turns out, aggressive breast cancers return to a flexible, earlier state found in fetal breast tissue. This cellular reprogramming may be the key to cancer's ability to form new cell types, evolve drug resistance and metastasize to other locations in the
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Hospitalising children: To do or not to do
Updated : 7 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [U.S.A.], May 13 (ANI): Recent times are seeing an increase in hospital-acquired infections among children, a new research has claimed.
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A 'game changer' test for antibiotic drug resistance
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jun 2 (ANI): When a patient is prescribed the wrong antibiotic to treat a bacterial infection, it's not necessarily the physician who is at fault. The current antibiotic assay, standardised in 1961 by the World Health Organization and used worldwide, is potentiall
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New approach to drug resistance, courtesy Hollywood wizardry
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Sept. 9 (ANI): Looks like Hollywood wizardry has turned quite helpful for the scientists from Harvard Medical School and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.
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First next-gen test can detect drug-resistant HIV
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C, Aug 8 (ANI): A first-of-its-kind next-generation sequencing test, which can detect HIV drug resistance mutations that conventional tests fail to identify, can be a weapon in the war against AIDS, suggests a new study.
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