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A World War II-era drug just helped patients go from 7 bathroom trips a night to just oneMayo Clinic researchers found a new way kidneys manage water. This discovery uses an old drug, probenecid, to reveal a pathway independent ...- FDA approval puts Wockhardt’s Zaynich in $9 billion antibiotics marketWockhardt's new antibiotic, Zaynich, has received US FDA approval. This drug uses a novel mechanism to fight drug-resistant bacteria. It ta...
- 1945 Kitchen Revolution began with one strange accident: How Percy Spencer’s melted candy bar at Raytheon accidentally led to the invention of the Microwave OvenDuring World War II, radar technology became essential for detecting enemy aircraft and ships. Percy Spencer was working with magnetrons, d...
- In 1928, Alexander Fleming Returned From Vacation: Found Mold in a Petri Dish and Discovered Penicillin, Changing Medicine ForeverA forgotten petri dish led to a groundbreaking discovery. Alexander Fleming observed mold inhibiting bacteria, a finding later developed in...
- Alexander Fleming’s Forgotten Petri Dish Sparked the Antibiotic RevolutionA chance observation in Alexander Fleming's London lab in 1928 led to a medical revolution. Fleming noticed mold killing bacteria in a petr...
- Word of the day: SerendipityWord of the day: Serendipity means finding good things by chance. It is about happy accidents and life's unexpected surprises. This word ca...
- The penicillin war: India's journey from self-sufficiency to dependence on ChinaAfter India lost its dominance in making penicillin, a drought of three decades is coming to an end. The drug – which forms the base for a ...
- Do you really need that antibiotic?Swallowing an antibiotic is like carpet-bombing the trillions of microorganisms that live in the gut, killing not just the bad but the good...
- AI to bring high-quality and affordable healthcare to people: GoogleThe next generation of AI and large language models (LLMs) represents a dramatic shift in capability and promises to bring high-quality, af...
- All it takes: 1% god's graceLook at how Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin. Upon returning from a vacation, Fleming checked on colonies of staphylococcus bacteria...
- Kariko and Weissman win medicine Nobel for COVID-19 vaccine workThe 2023 NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman for their discoveries concerning nucleos...
- We should learn from our mistakes when it comes to our personal financesWe may like the idea of trying to classify mistakes as big and small; trivial and serious; inexpensive and costly; and try to rework our ap...
- Svante Pääbo wins Nobel Prize in MedicineLast year's recipients were David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian for their discoveries into how the human body perceives temperature and touc...
- From anaesthesia to penicillin: Drugs that changed the world, for better or worseIt's a good reminder that today's wonder drug may be tomorrow's problem drug.
- Drug discovery gaps can only be filled by returning to the root of medicine, says this scientistNatural products from microbes and plants are the biggest resource for drug discovery.
- Oxford University's new mega centre to combat global antibiotic resistanceThe university experts warn that it is arguably the greatest economic and healthcare challenge facing the world post-Covid and therefore th...
- Kolkata scientist duo on the verge of cancer breakthrough using dopamineThe two researchers say it also starves cancerous tumours of blood, causing them to shrink and eventually vanish.
- Scientists create new antibiotic Teixobactin in 30 yearsTeixobactin can treat many common bacterial infections such as tuberculosis, septicemia and C Diff or clostridium difficile colitis.
- New test to spot what makes a good drugA new test could revolutionise the discovery of new prescription drugs by determining which drugs are unlikely to work at an early stage.
- New class of antibiotics discoveredScientists have discovered a new class of antibiotics to fight deadly bacteria such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and othe...
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