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5,000-year-old bacteria revived from ice can fight superbugs, but scientists see a downsideScientists have isolated a Psychrobacter SC65A.3, a bacterial strain frozen for almost 5,000 years in Romania’s Scărișoara Ice Cave. The mi...17 Feb, 2026, 06.59 PM IST- Artificial Intelligence designs two potential antibiotics to combat drug-Resistant Gonorrhoea and MRSAResearchers have used AI to design two promising antibiotics that are helpful in combating drug-resistant bacteria, including gonorrhoea an...15 Aug, 2025, 12.54 AM IST
- How an 80-year-old antibiotic can become a wonder drug to defeat world's most dangerous infectionsResearchers are studying streptothricin, an old antibiotic, for its potential to fight drug-resistant superbugs. The antibiotic, now named ...31 Oct, 2024, 12.52 PM IST
- Superbug crisis: Antibiotic-resistant superbugs may kill 4 crore people worldwide, claims new studySuperbugs: Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) could claim over 39 million lives globally by 2050, warns a study in The Lancet. The report highl...24 Sep, 2024, 09.36 AM IST
- Watch out, newly-vaccinated travellers. Drug-resistant superbugs may be hiding in your gutThe study says international travel risks spreading antimicrobial resistance globally.09 Jun, 2021, 03.30 PM IST
- Plants transmitting superbugs to humans?24 Jun, 2019, 01.30 PM IST
- Your habit of throwing medicines is breeding superbugs that are hard to cure"Superbugs" are strains of bacteria that are resistant to the majority of antibiotics commonly used today to treat infections.29 Aug, 2018, 11.02 AM IST
- Bugworks Research wins Top Innovator at ET Startup Awards 2017"At a time where the business narrative is predominantly dominated by tech, it is so heartening to see the Economics Times giving a platfor...18 Aug, 2017, 09.31 PM IST
- 'Superbug on ISS will help NASA understand its mutation'New York, Feb 19 (IANS) Sending an antibiotic-resistant superbug to a zero-gravity environment like the International Space Station (ISS) w...20 Feb, 2017, 01.20 PM IST
- We are on the cusp of an 'apocalyptic scenario' with antibioticsWhile powerful drugs can be useful for fighting infections, research suggests we're giving them far too often and in higher doses than nece...07 Sep, 2015, 03.17 PM IST
- Superbug: British researchers challenge India's standThe researchers have challenged the stand of Indian health authorities who have been maintaining that drug-resistant pathogens such as the ...10 Feb, 2012, 10.47 PM IST
- Superbug threat: Govt mulls introducing new 'schedule' in ActThe threat of a multi-drug resistant superbug looming large has forced the government to consider introduction of a separate schedule in th...17 Apr, 2011, 10.39 AM IST
- Drug resistant superbug retains Delhi tagNaming the drug resistant superbug New Delhi Metallo Beta Lactamase-I (NDM-1 ) after India's capital city was 'a big mistake' admitted Lanc...07 Apr, 2011, 11.53 AM IST
- Lancet says sorry for 'Delhi bug''It was unfair to name a superbug -- organisms that grow in nature in every country -- after India without any evidence that it originated ...12 Jan, 2011, 09.51 AM IST
- Superbug should not have been named New Delhi: Lancet EditorThe editor of leading medical journal Lancet apologised for the naming of an antibiotic resistant superbug after the Indian capital, saying...11 Jan, 2011, 08.45 PM IST
- "Super superbug" NDM-1 spreads in EuropeSome 77 cases of a multi-drug resistant "superbug" from India first reported in Britain in August have now been detected in 13 European cou...17 Nov, 2010, 08.30 PM IST
- Doctors shrug off superbug health scare from IndiaMedical authorities in India played down the risk of an international public health scare after a report in warned that people travelling t...12 Aug, 2010, 05.12 AM IST
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