The discovery may help raise the success rate of a type of cancer treatment that currently works for only 20% of patients who ...

When bacteria like E. coli no longer respond to antibiotics, infections become harder to treat. Phys.org. Using machine learning to identify bacterial resistance genes and the drugs to block them.

Gut bacteria are known to be a key factor in many health-related concerns. However, the number and variety of them is vast, ...

When bacteria like E. coli no longer respond to antibiotics, infections become harder to treat. To develop new antibiotics, researchers typically identify the genes that make bacteria resistant.

We identified bacteria in samples of vaginal fluid with a combination of broad-range polymerase-chain-reaction (PCR) amplification of 16S rDNA with clone analysis, bacterium-specific PCR assay of ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) could be used to identify drug resistant infections, significantly reducing the time taken for a correct diagnosis, Cambridge researchers have shown.

WILMINGTON, Del. — Catherine Grimes is still in her 30s, but she is already a veteran in the war on harmful bacteria. Having helped design new antibiotics while a graduate student at Princeton ...

What’s the difference between a bacterial and viral infection? ... MRI, or CT scan to see how your illness is affecting your body. Scans and X-rays can't identify a viral infection, however.

A simple oral rinse could pick up those bacteria as part of a quick and easy cancer screening, researchers will argue May 20 during a presentation at the Digestive Disease Week meeting in ...