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Posted on 02.08.23
Antibiotics and innate immunity: A successful partnership
The evolution of medicine has largely separated the pharmacology of the antibiotics themselves from the functions of our innate immune system. Antibiotics are largely natural products made by actinomycetes, fungi and other microorganism...
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Posted on 01.18.23
Simplify your lab life with ReadyMade™ antibiotic solutions
If you routinely prepare lab media containing antibiotics, you eventually develop your own tips to make life simpler for yourself, like preparing those antibiotic stock solutions ahead of time and freezing them. Sounds like cooking, ri...
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Posted on 12.08.22
'Prime and spike’ nasal booster reduces transmission of COVID-19
As our knowledge and research on Coronaviruses including SARS-CoV-2 grows, one of the technologies being explored is an intranasal spike vaccine booster. The current set of parenteral vaccines offer robust systemic immunity but poor im...
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Posted on 11.18.22
World Antimicrobial Awareness Week
Today marks the start of World Antimicrobial Awareness Week (Nov 18-24) around the world. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a pressing global issue. This occurs when microbes such as bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites no longer re...
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Posted on 11.02.22
Novel compound holds promise for MRSA
Antibiotic resistance (AMR) poses a threat to global health and Staphylococcus aureus has become one of the most notable multidrug-resistant pathogens, causing nearly 1 million deaths globally. S. aureus is found in 30% of the populatio...