Science news articles about 'antibiotic resistance in bacteria'

... pairing of DNA to provide a defensive tool that could be used to fight the spread of antibiotic resistance in bacteria -- one of the world's most pressing public health problems. The resistant nasty ...

... pairing of DNA to provide a defensive tool that could be used to fight the spread of antibiotic resistance in bacteria. They discovered that a special DNA sequence found in certain bacteria can impede ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- The increasing antibiotic resistance of bacteria is a serious problem of our time. Hospital germs in particular have developed strains against which practically every current ...

... death. These findings open up new possibilities in fighting the looming specter of antibiotic resistance in bacteria. Knowing some of the specific differences between antibiotics that kill bacteria ...

... -the-counter and may not always be used appropriately as evidenced by high rates of antibiotic resistance in bacteria from people in rural Uganda. The results further show that even in well-managed ...

... first insight into the importance of genetic interaction between random alleles in determining antibiotic resistance in bacteria. From a public health point of view, it can also explains multi-drug ...

... to slip into a bacterium's genetic code, allowing bacteria to genetically adapt to their environment -- and develop resistance to antibiotics, according to a new Cornell study in the Aug. 21 issue of ...

... type of proteins we have been studying, for example, are involved in drug resistance in cancer cells and antibiotic resistance of bacteria. "I look forward to exploiting this discovery to the full; ...