David Baillot/University of California San Diego
Faster and more accurate pathogen detection through DNA melting
05.03.2024
Unlike conventional blood cultures, which can take anywhere from 15 hours to several days to yield results, the new digital DNA melting analysis delivers actionable insights in under six hours. This accelerated turnaround time enables clinicians to initiate targeted treatment strategies promptly, minimizing the risk of disease progression and improving patient outcomes.
Gregor Hübl/University of Bonn
Researchers decode new antibiotic
29.08.2023
Cooperation between the University of Bonn, the USA and the Netherlands cracks the mode of action of clovibactin
LanaSweet
Research gives new insights into fighting antimicrobial resistance
25.08.2023
Cooking food thoroughly and avoiding some types of vegetables and salad during a course of antibiotic treatment could potentially reduce antibiotic resistance, by preventing bacteria carrying resistance genes getting into the gut, according to a new study.
Anna Schroll/Leibniz-HKI
Robotics: modular platform for antibiotics research
27.07.2023
The high cost and limited commercial value of new antibiotics discourage their development, as they are used sparingly to avoid resistance. To address this, a new robotics platform aims to simplify the development of active substances to combat the problem of antibiotic resistance. While we cannot always prevent resistance, this approach offers a promising solution.
Empa
Antibiotics crisis: rapid test for sepsis with nanoparticles
09.06.2023
For Qun Ren, every minute counts. The Empa researcher and her team are currently developing a diagnostic procedure that can detect life-threatening blood poisoning caused by staphylococcus bacteria rapidly. This is because staphylococcal sepsis is fatal in up to 40 percent of the cases.
Karolinska Institutet
New method reveals bacterial reaction to antibiotics in five minutes
26.05.2023
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have developed a molecular method able to detect whether or not bacteria respond to antibiotics within minutes.
Ines Villalba (EPFL)
Antibiotic resistance: fast, cheap, and easy test method
02.05.2023
“We have developed a technique in our laboratories that allows us to obtain an antibiogram within 2-4 hours – instead of the current 24 hours for the most common germs and one month for tuberculosis,” says Dr Sandor Kasas at EPFL.
Paul Scherrer Institut/Markus Fischer
Using light to switch drugs on and off
27.02.2023
In the ImageTox project, the Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS) and the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security are pooling their expertise in the fields of drug discovery and artificial intelligence (AI).
Dietze / HIPS
HIPS and CISPA join forces to make future active ingredients safer
23.02.2023
In the ImageTox project, the Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS) and the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security are pooling their expertise in the fields of drug discovery and artificial intelligence (AI).
wichayada69
Funding to produce biodegradable antiviral and antibacterial materials
08.02.2023
A new junior research group at Freie Universität Berlin, which will investigate the production of biodegradable antiviral and antibacterial materials, with one of the goals of synthesis being new alternatives to conventional antibiotics, will receive a total budget of more than 1.8 million euros from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) over the next five years.
Okrasyuk
Wound care: New spray fights infections and antibiotic resistance
07.02.2023
A group of researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden are presenting a new spray that can kill even antibiotic-resistant bacteria, and that can be used for wound care and directly on implants and other medical devices.