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Cultured mini-organs reveal the weapons of aggressive bacteria

The study opens the door to using cultured human mini-organs to investigate a wide range of other serious infections

16-Jun-2025 - Thanks to lab-grown miniature intestines, researchers at the Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research (HIRI) in Würzburg in collaboration with Uppsala University in Sweden have successfully mapped how aggressive Shigella bacteria infect the human gut. The study, published in the ...

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Chlorotonil: Game-Changer in the Fight Against Multidrug-Resistant Pathogens

Researchers decipher novel mode of action of natural product antibiotic

17-Apr-2025 - The development and spread of antibiotic resistance represents one of the greatest threats to global health. To overcome these resistances, drugs with novel mode of action are urgently needed. Researchers at the Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS) have now uncovered ...

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Amferia closes €1,2 million investment to combat resistant bacterial infections

"Bacterial infections are likely to surpass cancer and heart disease as a number one cause of human deaths in the future..."

05-Sep-2024 - Amferia, a Swedish medtech company focused on developing innovative antimicrobial healthcare solutions, announces the successful closure of a 1.2-million-euro investment round. The round was over prescribed and spearheaded by existing owners and new investors. The funding will support the ...

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Using PETRA III to watch the disabling of a penicillin killer

Scientists observe in detail the binding and formation of covalent bonds of an inhibitor to a bacterial enzyme that disables common antibiotics

31-Jul-2024 - Antibiotic resistance is a major and particularly in recent years a growing challenge in medicine. Scientists around the world are searching for new and efficient compounds to treat bacterial infections, especially infections caused by multi-resistant bacteria. A research collaboration of ...

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Does a Mixture of One Million Peptides Hold the Key to the Antibiotics of the Future?

New approach to diminish antibiotic resistance developed by international research team

05-Jul-2024 - Antibiotics are a cornerstone of modern medicine. They are regularly used to treat bacterial infections or as a prophylactic measure during surgery to prevent infection. However, due to the widespread use of antibiotics, many bacteria have grown resistant to them, a development that has dramatic ...

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Portable AI-based test kit to identify bacterial infections

Dutch scientist selected as a finalist for the Young Inventors Prize 2024: Her startup focuses on the most common types of infection

11-Jun-2024 - According to a study published in The Lancet, one in eight global deaths in 2019 was caused by common bacterial infections, which are the second leading cause of death worldwide. Due to slow or ineffective diagnostics many treatments are carried out with limited information on the condition, ...

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Pathoblockers, a future alternative to antibiotics?

Researchers “defanging” bacteria, rendering them harmless

21-May-2024 - In most cases, antibiotics are a reliable form of protection against bacterial infections. They have saved billions of human lives since their introduction. This protection, however, is threatened by bacteria’s resistance to classical antibiotics and by their aggressive pathogenicity. Currently, ...

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Bringing Multidrug-Resistant Pathogens to their Knees

Fluorous lipopetides act as highly effective antibiotics

09-Apr-2024 - Multidrug-resistant bacterial infections that cannot be treated by any known antibiotics pose a serious global threat. In the journal Angewandte Chemie, a Chinese research team has now introduced a method for the development of novel antibiotics to fight resistant pathogens. The drugs are based ...

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Antibiotics highjack bacterial immunity

Molecular defense system protects bacteria from viruses and at the same time makes them susceptible to antibiotics

23-Jan-2024 - Bacteria have an immune system that protects them against viruses known as bacteriophages. A research team from the Universities of Tübingen and Würzburg has now shown how this immune system enhances the effect of specific antibiotics against the cholera pathogen Vibrio cholerae. The immune ...

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Single-celled kamikazes spearhead bacterial infection

How a few soldier cells confer virulence to an entire bacterial population by sacrificing themselves

23-Jan-2024 - You suddenly feel sick - pathogenic bacteria have managed to colonize and spread in your body! The weapons they use for their invasion are harmful toxins that target the host’s defense mechanisms and vital cell functions. Before these deadly toxins can attack host cells, bacteria must first ...

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