A Super Superbug Testing Market
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Becton, Dickinson gets FDA approval of its latest (rapid) superbug detection test.
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Evolutionary experiments on microbes are under way in many laboratories and scientists can observer bacteria adapt over 40,000 generations of living in a beaker.
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The UK's MRSA problem may be due to the emergence of highly contagious clones of the superbug, says a scientist.
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Scientists believe they may have found a way to stop the problem of bacteria becoming resistant to drug treatments.
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Antibiotic-resistant bacteria have a sonar-like system that enables them to zero in on and destroy other bacteria or normal cells, says a study in the Dec. 24 issue of the journal Science.
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Rates of the superbug MRSA are falling, but the potentially more dangerous C. difficile is thriving, figures show.
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A health trust may have to bring in new practices to better monitor the hospital bug Clostridium difficile.
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Sixteen hospital deaths in the Northern Trust area are linked to an outbreak of the superbug C. difficile.
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Everybody needs the best possible antivirus software, right? Sure, but try and get vendors to agree on how to test the contenders. Representatives of several of the big AV firms met recently to try their hand at developing a testing spec, but it's no simple task.
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BOXBOROUGH -- Design engineer Alan Lear has rolled up his sleeves. His lab is crammed with motherboards and oscilloscopes. He scans a screen showing the signal quality of the transmission between a pair of Advanced Micro Devices' prototype chips.
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Hard-earned tips from a biotech investor.
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Advancements in nanotechnology are increasingly being applied in the water-purification industry, where keeping harmful microbes out of drinking water requires nano-scale innovation. By Michael Bradbury.
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The MRSA superbug has played a part in 116 deaths in Northern Ireland in the past seven years, figures have shown. Nearly three quarters of those deaths occurred in the over-75 age group.
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A little-known Food and Drug program is testing the latest medical technology to determine how safe and useful it can be. One cutting-edge experiment is designed to see if
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Think of germs as gangsters. One thug lurking on a corner you might outrun, but a dozen swaggering down the street? Yikes. Bacteria make their own gangs, clustering quietly in the body until there's a large enough group to begin an attack. This is the next frontier in fighting drug-resistant superbugs. The idea: Don't just try to kill bacteria. The bugs will always find a way to thwart the next antibiotic.
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Can small variations in the UK news search engine market produce large variations in the long-term behavior of the worldwide search engine market?
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Sure, there are more brands than ever. But their value is plummeting as consumer loyalty evaporates. Who's to blame? A new breed of hyperinformed superconsumers. By James Surowiecki from Wired magazine.