A copper bullet for tuberculosis: A new antibiotic could be a better, faster treatment for TB
Tuberculosis is a sneaky disease. The bacteria hide from antibiotics inside the very immune cells that are supposed to kill
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Scientists develop new drug treatment for TB
Scientists at The University of Manchester have developed the first non-antibiotic drug to successfully treat tuberculosis in animals. The team
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Scanning thousands of molecules against an elusive cancer target
Researchers at the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), part of the National Institutes of Health, have developed a
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Patients want more information about their medicines, study finds
Many patients want more information on the medicines they’re prescribed and greater say in the brands they use, the first
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DNA technology provides novel strategy for delivery of complex anti-HIV agent: DNA electroporation technology successfully used to direct expression of anti-HIV immunoadhesins and to modulate their function in vivo
Scientists at The Wistar Institute have applied their synthetic DNA technology to engineer a novel eCD4-Ig anti-HIV agent and to
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Scientists take big step toward finding non-addictive painkiller
With the support of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, scientists at Wake Forest School of Medicine have been working
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Call for a unified approach to preventing suicides and other self-injury deaths: Study showed the rising rate of estimated self-injury mortality reached 24 deaths per 100,000 people, matching mortality from diabetes.
Self-injury mortality (SIM), a composite of all methods of suicide and estimated non-suicide deaths from drug self-intoxication, has surpassed diabetes
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Environmentally friendly photoluminescent nanoparticles for more vivid display colors
Most current displays do not always accurately represent the world’s colors as we perceive them by eye, instead only representing
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Alternative treatment for peripheral artery disease
Cristina Sabliov, LSU Biological and Agricultural Engineering professor, and Tammy Dugas, professor in the LSU School of Veterinary Medicine’s Department
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Red or yellow? A simple paper test detects false or substandard antibiotics
Antibiotics — medicines that treat bacterial infections — have saved millions of lives worldwide since their discovery in the early
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