Bugs and Drugs. Gut bacteria could determine how well medicines work. By Gunjan Sinha. Join Our Community of Science Lovers! Sign Up for Our Free Daily Newsletter. Email Address.

In a move that highlights dilemmas plaguing the U.S. drug supply, federal regulators warned a major manufacturer about problems including bugs in vials of sterile drugs -- insects, literally ...

There is a constant war between pathogenic bacteria and humans, and the microbes seem to be winning. New data from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) indicate the incidence of serious invasive ...

Bugs as Drugs: Seeking the Microbial Secret to Health. Shelly Fan. Nov 22, 2015. Share. Our body is, in essence, more ecosystem than organism. The human body teems with trillions of microbes — ...

The average company must invest $800 million of capital over 15 years to develop a ...

Bugs As Drugs. By Carl Zimmer. April 8, 2013 ... As long as companies don’t make any specific drug-like claims about their germs, they can say whatever they want.

Danino became interested in using this oscillating gene circuit to tackle biomedical challenges, so he pivoted to bacterial cancer therapies. Bacteria already have a proclivity for the tumor ...

Drugs And Bugs Host David Wright talks with ethnobotanist Mark J. Plotkin, Ph.D, about his new book Medicine Quest. Plotkin has done extensive research throughout the rainforests of South America ...

The bug demonstrated its tenaciousness: Thrasher, her husband, Jobee, and her 11-year-old son, Clint, all popped up with boils before antibiotics brought things under control. Or so she thought.

A common street name for a variety of drugs, KD has taken on a frightening form on Indianapolis' east side. Users writhing on the ground, wide-eyed and struggling to breathe. Standing but moving ...