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Biotech health care innovations meet security challenges

February 25, 2020 0 Comments AI, biosensors, ble, bluetooth, dna-test, fda, pacemaker, Pharmaceuticals, smart pill, sweyntooth, Vital infrastructure, Vulnerabilities

Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2020 17:54:06 +0000

Advancements in biotech could save thousands, if not millions of lives. But what security and privacy challenges do they introduce? We take a close look at recent innovations.

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Evolving alongside other bacteria keeps hospital bug potent

October 23, 2019 0 Comments Bacteria, CRISPR Gene Editing, Dentistry, Extreme Survival, Infectious Diseases, Microbes and More, Pharmaceuticals, Pharmacology

Bacteria that evolve in natural environments — rather than laboratory tests — may become resistant to phage treatments without losing their virulence, new research shows.

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Turning wood into pharmaceutical ingredients

October 23, 2019 0 Comments Controlled Substances, Diseases and Conditions, Environmental Science, Hazardous Waste, Pharmaceuticals, Pharmacology, Recycling and Waste, Water

Production of hazardous waste during drug manufacturing is a serious concern for the pharmaceutical industry. Typically, large amounts of flammable solvents are used during these processes, which usually require several steps to make structurally complex drugs. Researchers now report a method to produce pharmaceutically relevant compounds in just two or three steps, with water as the only waste product, using renewable woodchips as starting material.

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Mapping international drug use through the world's largest wastewater study

October 23, 2019 0 Comments Addiction, Controlled Substances, Crystal Meth, Environmental Policy, Geography, Illegal Drugs, Ocean Policy, Oceanography, Pharmaceuticals, Pharmacology, Transportation Issues, Travel and Recreation

A seven-year project monitoring illicit drug use in 37 countries via wastewater samples shows that cocaine use was skyrocketing in Europe in 2017 and Australia had a serious problem with methamphetamine.

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Bacterial lifestyle alters the evolution of antibiotic resistance

October 23, 2019 0 Comments Bacteria, Diabetes, Extreme Survival, Infectious Diseases, Microbes and More, Microbiology, Pharmaceuticals, Pharmacology

How bacteria live – whether as independent cells or in a communal biofilm – determines the course of their evolution, with implications for drug-resistant infections.

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Machine learning's next frontier: Epigenetic drug discovery

October 22, 2019 0 Comments Computer Programming, Computer Science, Computers and Internet, Epigenetics, Neural Interfaces, Personalized Medicine, Pharmaceuticals, Pharmacology

Scientists have developed a machine-learning algorithm that gleans information from microscope images — allowing for high-throughput epigenetic drug screens that could unlock new treatments for cancer, heart disease, mental illness and more.

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Closures affect 1 in 8 pharmacies in the US

October 21, 2019 0 Comments Controlled Substances, Disaster Plan, Health Policy, Land Management, Pharmaceuticals, Pharmacology, Poverty and Learning, Urbanization

Despite an overall increase in the number of pharmacies in the U.S. from 2009 to 2015, one in eight pharmacies, or 9,654, had closed during this period. Independent pharmacies in both urban and rural areas were three times more likely to close than chain pharmacies.

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Preventing streptococci infections

October 18, 2019 0 Comments Bacteria, Biology, Biotechnology, Cystic Fibrosis, Infectious Diseases, New Species, Pharmaceuticals, Pharmacology

Researchers have discovered an enzyme they believe could be key to preventing Group A Streptococcus infections that cause more than 500,000 deaths worldwide each year. The enzyme works through a novel mechanism of action that can also be found in other streptococcal species, increasing the impact and relevance of this finding.

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A simpler way to make some medicines

October 17, 2019 0 Comments Biochemistry, Chemistry, HIV and AIDS, Inorganic Chemistry, Lung Cancer, Organic Chemistry, Pharmaceuticals, Pharmacology

Organic chemists have figured out how to synthesize the most common molecule arrangement in medicine, a scientific discovery that could change the way a number of drugs — including one most commonly used to treat ovarian cancer — are produced. Their discovery, published today in the journal Chem, gives drug makers a crucial building block for creating medicines that, so far, are made with complex processes that result in a lot of waste.

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Parasite paralysis: A new way to fight schistosomiasis?

October 17, 2019 0 Comments Bacteria, Biochemistry Research, Biology, Healthy Aging, Human Biology, Pests and Parasites, Pharmaceuticals, Pharmacology

Scientists have isolated a natural chemical that acts as a potent kryptonite against parasitic worms that burrow through human skin and cause devastating health problems. Researchers now describe the successful characterization of this chemical, which could help in finding new ways to fight the neglected tropical disease schistosomiasis.

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