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Sensei Biotherapeutics has raised $28.5 million to advance a pipeline of personalized cancer drugs. The financing round comes weeks after Sensei shared clinical data on the effect of combining its lead asset…

Scientists are listening in on the ways viruses communicate and cooperate. Decoding what the microbes are saying could be a boon to human health. Geneticist Rotem Sorek could see that…

Scientists in India have developed a bacteriophage-based product to help control bacterial diseases in shrimp hatcheries. At a time when bacterial disease is posing a major threat to shrimp seed…

Hygiene experts have said that poor hygiene in the home is contributing to antibiotic resistance. The Global Hygiene Council conducted a risk-based approach to home hygiene, concluding that good hygiene in the…

Challenges •Resources directed away from AMR surveillance•Increase in pre-emptive antibiotic prescribing to prevent secondary bacterial infections•Antibiotic overuse in agribusiness•Delays in AMR legislation•Antimicrobial drug shortages•Empty pharmaceutical pipeline•USA withdrawal of support for…

Drug-resistant bacteria, or superbugs, present a serious and worsening threat to human health. According to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2.8 million Americans acquire serious infections caused…

Antibiotics (mdpi publisher) In light of your outstanding expertise, we would like to cordially invite you to contribute a paper to be included in the Special Issue “Phage Therapy to Control…

Patients hospitalised due to the novel coronavirus infection are being given a combination of medications to prevent possible secondary bacterial infections, noted the researchers at the University of Plymouth in…

Each year, about 2.8 million Americans get bacterial infections that resist treatment by the antibiotics designed to knock them out. About 35,000 of those patients die – globally the mortality…

Published in the Lancet Infectious Diseases Background Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are among the most prevalent microbial diseases and their financial burden on society is substantial. In the context of…