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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- USFDA accepts Wockhardt’s NDA for breakthrough antibiotic ZaynichThis is the first time ever that an NDA from a new chemical entity (NCE) from an Indian pharma company has been filed and accepted by the U...01 Dec, 2025, 07.47 PM IST
- AI-crafted viruses that eat bacteria: Scientists say the medical breakthrough has already begunScientists have leveraged Artificial Intelligence to design entirely new bacteriophages, viruses capable of attacking and killing bacteria....29 Sep, 2025, 01.18 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
- 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
- Investors with $13 trillion urge climate approach to superbugsAntimicrobial resistance, also known as AMR, kills nearly 1.3 million people a year and occurs when germs become resistant to drugs. If lef...03 Sep, 2024, 09.57 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
- At the epicenter of a war, Indian antibiotic startups are fighting back“We’re creating a bullet against organisms that are taking out humanity. Wouldn’t it be nice to get a battleground to test it on that’s rea...26 Jun, 2018, 10.45 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
- 'Superbugs' hinder kidney infection treatmentPyelonephritis is an infection of the kidney which starts as a urinary tract infection causes fever, back pain & vomiting.05 Oct, 2016, 07.20 PM IST
- A newly-discovered antibiotic-resistant gene opens new front in the war against superbugsFirst identified in China last November, the gene has since been discovered in livestock, water, meat and vegetables for human consumption ...11 Apr, 2016, 09.21 AM IST
- Japanese Encephalitis, NDM1 caused concern in Delhi hospitals2011 saw surfacing of Japanese Encephalitis in Delhi for the first time & presence of the deadly superbug NDM1 in several Delhi hospitals.06 Jan, 2012, 10.31 AM 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
- Countering the superbug scareThe report on Indian origins of the superbug is disconcerting.14 Aug, 2010, 05.33 AM IST
- Linking superbug to India irrational: GovtIndia described as "totally irrational" British scientists linking a new superbug resistant to antibiotics to this country and said it was ...12 Aug, 2010, 04.34 PM IST
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