Light-powered robot swarms may replace antibiotics for tough sinus infections

Swarms of microrobots have been designed to help get rid of bacterial sinus infections. After completing the task, these tiny robots can be easily expelled from the nose. Interestingly, these tiny, light-activated robots are reportedly as small as a “dust …

Poultry antibiotics may fuel human resistance - study

Canadian research links ionophores to rising AMR risk A new study, published in mSphere, a journal of the American Society for Microbiology, suggests some antibiotics used in conventional poultry farming may contribute to the development of antibiotic …

Prokaryotics Licenses Gram-Negative Antibiotic Potentiator from Northern Antibiotics

Union, NJ-based Prokaryotics has entered into a licensing agreement with Finnish company Northern Antibiotics that will give Prokaryotics global rights to develop, manufacture, and commercialize a treatment currently known as NAB741, formerly SPR741 (1). …

Typhoid fever is becoming immune to almost all antibiotics, causing great concern

Typhoid fever, which was once knocked down by simple pills, is standing up again. The bacterium Salmonella typhi now shows resistance to almost every antibiotic that doctors throw at it. “The speed at which highly‑resistant strains of S. typhi have emerged …

Antibiotics used in food-animal production linked to resistance in people

New research suggests that a class of antibiotics commonly used in poultry and other food-producing animals, but not in people, could contribute to antibiotic-resistant infections in humans. The antibiotic class in question is ionophores, which are used to …

The Downside of Taking Antibiotics

How to protect your gut naturally If you’ve taken antibiotics in the past, don’t panic. The key now is to support your gut moving forward. Here’s how: Heal your gut lining. Antibiotics don’t just affect your gut flora, they can also inflame or damage the …

Drugs Control Administration seizes Rs 3L worth of counterfeit antibiotics in Hyderabad drugstore raids

Prokaryotics Announces Licensing Agreement With Northern Antibiotics For Novel Gram-Negative Antibiotic Potentiator

(MENAFN- PR Newswire) UNION, N.J., June 26, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Prokaryotics Inc., a privately-held biopharmaceutical company engaged in the discovery and development of novel anti-infective drugs, announced today that it has entered into a …

Dental Antibiotics: Curbing Over-Prescribing

Scottish group aims to engage with the profession and organisations to reduce levels 25 June, 2025 / indepth  Douglas Robertson   The topic of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one which has become increasingly important over recent years as the …

London dog owner 'frightened' as pet catches rare bacterial infection that can spread to humans

A London dog owner has described his horror after his pet tested positive for an infection which often results in the animals being put to sleep. Brucella Canis is a little-known bacterial infection rarely seen in the UK, with just three cases among dogs …