New COVID-19 drug shows greater promise against resistant viral strains
Rutgers Health researchers have developed an oral antiviral drug candidate for COVID-19 that could overcome major limitations ...
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Virus Infects Cells with a Protective Cloaking Mechanism
Scientists are now looking to bacteriophage — viruses that infect bacteria — and their potential to treat drug-resistant ...
Antimicrobial resistance crisis a major threat to human health
The emergence of antibiotic-resistant strains threatens to set back the world a hundred years to the age when even a minor ...
New antibiotic triggers self-destruction in drug-resistant gonorrhea bacteria
Researchers from the universities in Konstanz and Vienna have discovered a new class of antibiotic that selectively targets Neisseria gonorrhoeae, the bacterium that causes gonorrhea. These substances ...
China’s modified virus therapy shows promise in last-stage cancer trials
A new cancer therapy utilising a genetically modified herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) offers hope for late-stage patients ...
Deadly, drug-resistant fungus spreading at ‘alarming rate,’ CDC warns
A fungal superbug is spreading through hospitals and nursing homes at an 'alarming rate,' with the CDC recently calling it an ...
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CDC warns drug-resistant fungus is an ‘urgent threat’ as infections spread
Infection rates are climbing for a drug-resistant fungus strain found in hospital systems in at least two states. Candida Auris (also called C. auris) is a deadly fungus killing more than one in ...