Antibiotics – Page 6
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NewsAntibiotic resistance is a ‘ticking time bomb’
Efforts to tackle the threat will need new thinking, but their may be no easy solutions or short cuts to new drugs
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Opinion
New antibiotics: what's the hold up?
It’s more a research problem, than a commercial one, says Derek Lowe
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NewsChinese drug makers accused of using ‘gutter oil’
Oil reclaimed from drains may have been used to make an antibiotic intermediate
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News€224 million EU antibiotics initiative launched
The project will bring together the pharmaceutical industry and academia, but some institutes have reservations
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NewsVoluntary controls on antibiotics on US farms criticised
The US Food and Drug Administration has introduced guidelines to try to cut antibiotic use in livestock
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PodcastTetracycline
Simon Cotton travels back to 1945 where a sample of Missouri soil produced a golden yellow antibiotic
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PodcastVancomycin
Simon Cotton explains the chemistry behind Vancomycin, an antibiotic used to treat a number of bacterial infections