Enough about the pandemic.
We are plenty of regular problems- like antibiotic-resistant microbes.
Believe it or not, there are still some scientists left NOT working on vaccines or therapies for SARS-CoV-2 who are able to address this recalcitrant problem.
Continue reading AI Drug Development?
I have run into this problem since grad school. What’s the plural of virus? Is it viri? Virus? Viruses?
Continue reading The age of phage?
Way back in the dark ages, when I was a grad student, we were still finding new antibiotics. And, contrary to your envisioned scenario, most of them were not being found by scientists creating various compounds in the lab.
Continue reading What’s Old is Now New?
Lots of hoopla this week (when this was written). The FDA is finally acting- it’s asking the big farms to stop using antibiotics when their animals are not sick. What, you say? You mean we use antibiotics for animals that are healthy? You betcha!
Continue reading Why don’t my drugs work?
Have you been prescribed antibiotics by your doctor and failed to follow the protocol? Oh, yes, I know, you felt better after a week, so why keep taking the antibiotic? It’s because the bacteria are still in your system, dying off. If you stop the treatment, those microbes can then survive and develop resistance to that antibiotic. After a while, we have created a generation of “superbugs” that are immune to our arsenal of antibacterials. And, that is a real problem.
Continue reading Say what? IBM is developing antibiotics?
