The search for new ways to treat malaria—a disease that kills some 600,000 people a year, most of them children in Sub-Saharan Africa—may have just gotten a boost. Chemists at UC San Francisco have ...
“Due to increasing resistance, it is becoming more and more frequent that common and well-tolerated antibiotics no longer work against dangerous bacterial pathogens,” says Prof. Mark Brönstrup, head ...
A new month, a new chemical to fear. Such is the business plan of the Environmental Working Group, an organization that I've been saying unflattering things about for years. Why? Because it usually ...
Matricide in nature is generally regarded as an improbable outcome, particularly in species where offspring depend on their mothers for survival and colony stability. Yet recent research on ant ...
They say you can’t teach an old dog new tricks, but can you do new tricks with old chemical catalysts? Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Professor John E. Moses and his team have paired a catalyst called ...
Click-to-release technique avoids the severely nephrotoxic effect of colistin Colistin is a last-resort antibiotic that is usually only used for severe infections with resistant bacteria. This is due ...