Antibiotic resistance
Antibiotics 'transform' themselves - New weapon against drug resistance
Scientists recently created a new 'weapon' against drug-resistant super bacteria - an antibiotic that can change shape.
Vancomycin
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Cancer
It's hard to believe the cancer-fighting properties of 'old' drugs
An antibiotic that was born nearly seven decades ago has an unexpected effect on the body's natural anti-cancer mechanism, when properly combined with radiation therapy.
Medicine - Health
The United States modulates extremely powerful antibiotics against bacteria
To combat the VRE virus, US scientists improved their 60-year-old vancomycin antibiotic into a powerful drug with an increase in effectiveness thousands of times.
Medicine - Health
Antibiotics increase the risk of asthma in children
Many parents rely on antibiotics only when their children are sick. However, experts warn, the current popular antibiotics kill bacteria in the intestinal tract, so it c…
Medicine - Health
Detection of new antibiotics inhibits resistant bacteria
German scientists have discovered a naturally occurring new substance capable of inhibiting the development of multiple drug-resistant bacteria, according to the latest…
New technology
Nanotechnology in the fight against viruses
Scientists from London Nanotechnology Center are using a nano method to study vancomycin activity.