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
Superbugs could kill millions and trigger $2 trillion economic meltdown by 2050A recent study highlights an impending global catastrophe: antimicrobial resistance threatens to claim millions of lives. By 2050, the glob...
21 Jul, 2025, 03.06 PM IST
FSSAI sets stricter rule for antibiotics in food items"If enforced strictly, the regulations will ensure safer food products for consumers by setting stricter residue and contaminant limits acr...
04 Nov, 2024, 12.01 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
Has the International Space Station been affected by a Super Bug?Astronauts at the International Space Station are likely to have been exposed to 13 strains of a super bug. Bacteria is believed to have mu...
13 Jun, 2024, 02.23 AM IST
Superbugs are ‘dangerously high’ threat in Greece, India, TurkeyDrug-resistant microbes are causing significant harm, resulting in 79,000 deaths annually and increasing medical costs by $28.9 billion acr...
14 Sep, 2023, 02.59 PM IST
Plants transmitting superbugs to humans?24 Jun, 2019, 01.30 PM IST
Bugworks Research bags Rs 62 crore in Series AThe company plans to use the funds to deepen its clinical trials.
13 Aug, 2018, 09.28 AM IST
Untreatable infections caused two of three newborn deaths in Delhi hospitalThe data for AIIMS, Safdarjung and Lok Nayak, which cater mostly to inborn babies, was published in The Lancet in 2016. It showed nearly 25...
07 Jul, 2018, 10.32 AM IST
- Half of Australian children prescribed antibiotics in first year
Melbourne, July 28 (IANS) Half of Australian children have been prescribed antibiotics in their first year, researchers found in a study pu...
28 Jul, 2017, 10.17 AM IST
ET Startup Awards 2017: Both Bugworks Research & Pandorum Technologies grab 'Top Innovator' awardDespite the complexities, long durations and dearth of money required for such research, several young companies are making a global impact...
24 Jul, 2017, 11.37 AM IST
Livestock with superbugs pose threat to human healthThe study, led by O R Vinodh Kumar, has been peer reviewed and accepted for publication in the Journal of Applied Microbiology.
30 Mar, 2017, 11.39 AM IST
World Health Organisation names 12 superbugs; most are present in IndiaThe WHO list of drug-resistant bacteria is divided into three categories. The most critical group includes multidrug-resistant bacteria tha...
02 Mar, 2017, 10.51 AM IST
Pharma body Pharmexcil slams green groups' superbug chargesIn the recent past, much of adverse propaganda is taking place against the Indian companies with an intention to malign the image of Indian...
28 Oct, 2016, 11.18 AM IST
Scientists develop new antibiotic from breast milkBritish scientists have developed an antibiotic from human breast milk that can combat certain drug-resistant bacteria known as superbugs.
23 Jan, 2016, 08.37 PM IST
- 100 million Indians could be carrying the superbug NDM-1
The carriage rate of NDM-1 in India is between 100 and 200 million, which means that NDM-1 has become a very serious public health issue.
09 Oct, 2011, 11.30 AM IST
- Superbug threat: Govt mulls introducing new 'schedule' in Act
The 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