Tag Archives: medicinal

New effective and safe antifungal isolated from the microbiome of sea splashes

[ad_1] Pharmacy professor Tim Bugni led a UW-Madison effort to identify new antimicrobials from poorly studied ecosystems. School of Pharmacy Combing the ocean for antimicrobials, scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have discovered a new antifungal compound that effectively targets multi-drug-resistant strains of deadly fungi without toxic side effects in …

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Researchers peer inside the deadly pathogen’s anti-theft kit

[ad_1] DURHAM, NC – The bacterium that causes tularemia, the tick-borne disease, is a lean and mean infecting machine. It carries a relatively small genome and a unique set of infectious tools, including a collection of chromosomal genes called the “island of pathogenicity”. A team of researchers from Duke University, …

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Pod e-cigarettes are less harmful to health than traditional cigarettes

[ad_1] Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.November 18, 2020 Cigarette smoking causes more than 480,000 deaths each year in the United States, according to federal government data, and some smokers find it nearly impossible to quit. Many of these smokers use regular or combustible cigarettes. Doctors and scientists have been exploring …

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The computational method could predict the immunotherapy response in patients with advanced melanoma

[ad_1] Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.November 18, 2020 Conclusion: A computational method that combines clinicodemographic variables with in-depth learning of pre-treatment histological images could predict the response to immune checkpoint blockade among patients with advanced melanoma. Journal in which the study was published: Clinical Cancer Research, a journal of the …

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