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The Placebo Effect: The mind’s ultimate deception
What is the placebo effect and could it resolve the antibiotic crisis? We explore the famed phenomenon that has mystified scientists since its discovery over 200 years ago.
Scibar: A Night of Microscopic Proportions
When he’s not swabbing beards for bacteria on BBC’s “Trust me, I’m a Doctor” or getting members of the public to search for new antibiotics through his Swab and Send project, Adam Roberts leads his research group at UCL who are investigating the intricacies of antimicrobial resistance and how bacteria can withstand pretty much anything […]
Resistance Genes Found for ‘Last Resort’ Antibiotics
Worrying news about a widely used last-resort antibiotic, as its overuse in agriculture is thought to have caused resistance gene to develop.
Organ transplant patients are at risk from unexpected bacterial species
Ureaplasma, normally a resident of the urinary tract, has been discovered to be causing devastating problems for some organ transplant patients
Bacterial cell walls, antibiotics and the origins of life
2015 Leeuwenhoek Lecture by Professor Jeff Errington. The cell wall is a crucial structure found in almost all bacteria. It is the target for our best antibiotics and fragments of the wall trigger powerful innate immune responses against infection.
New discovery signals a potential end to the antibiotic crisis
An ingenious new invention named ‘iChip’ allows detection of antibiotics produced by soil microbes – such antibiotics utilised by humans to fight infection
Revenge of the microbes (Friday Evening Discourse)
Bacteria are our ancient enemies, evolving ever more clever ways of outmanoeuvring our natural defences and scientific technologies. For millennia, a simple cut or cough could kill. With the development of antibiotics, it seemed we would reign supreme. But now the bacteria are gaining ground.
Targeting Sex to Stop Malaria in Its Tracks
Liz Zuccala looks at how scientists are looking for drugs to stop sexual development of malaria parasites
More transparency for Pharma?
Big pharma should make their clinical trial data more open and their research funding more transparent …
The Culture of Illness
Why everyone should know just a little bit about medicine…
Fighting Superbugs: The Battle Continues
“The first death in relation to this outbreak occurred on the sixth of January. The second occurred on the thirteenth of January. And, as you may have heard on the news overnight or this morning, the third death occurred late yesterday evening.” Visibly shaken neonatal consultant Clifford Mayes made this statement at a press conference […]