By EMILY JOSHU STERNE, US SENIOR HEALTH REPORTER Published: 00:30, 26 August 2025 | Updated: 00:44, 26 August 2025 It’s a drink most people enjoy every day. But consuming it while taking common antibiotics may raise the risk of being sickened by deadly bacteria. Researchers from three countries evaluated nearly 100 chemical substances and how they interacted with E. coli, a …
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A daily cup of coffee could be blunting the effects of certain antibiotic treatments, according to a new study analyzing the reaction of Escherichia coli bacteria to caffeine. The international team of researchers behind the study looked at 94 different chemical substances and how they changed E. coli: specifically, how they altered the systems that control what gets into and …
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A daily cup of coffee could be blunting the effects of certain antibiotic treatments, according to a new study analyzing the reaction of Escherichia coli bacteria to caffeine. The international team of researchers behind the study looked at 94 different chemical substances and how they changed E. coli: specifically, how they altered the systems that control what gets into and …
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In 1954, just a few years after the widespread introduction of antibiotics, doctors were already aware of the problem of resistance. Natural selection meant that using these new medicines gave an advantage to the microbes that could survive the assault – and a treatment that worked today could become ineffective tomorrow. A British doctor put the challenge in military terms: …
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AI drugs to tackle MRSA herald ‘second golden age in antibiotics’ The Times AI designs antibiotics for gonorrhoea and MRSA superbugs BBC Using generative AI, researchers design compounds that can kill drug-resistant bacteria MIT News Deep learning reveals antibiotics in the archaeal proteome Nature Superbugs Meet Their Match in Generative AI-Designed Drugs IEEE Spectrum Source link
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This could re-energise the drug pipeline just in time Could AI save us from the antibiotic apocalypse? That’s the hope from new research in which scientists designed novel drugs atom-by-atom to beat two notorious superbugs, including MRSA. Antibiotic resistance is a growing problem, causing the deaths of around five million people a year. Even routine operations could become life-threatening events …
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Getty Images Artificial intelligence has invented two new potential antibiotics that could kill drug-resistant gonorrhoea and MRSA, researchers have revealed. The drugs were designed atom-by-atom by the AI and killed the superbugs in laboratory and animal tests. The two compounds still need years of refinement and clinical trials before they could be prescribed. But the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) …
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Deep-learning-guided identification of archaeasins We collected 18,677 non-redundant reviewed protein sequences from 233 archaeal organisms available on UniProt10 and used APEX 1.1, a deep learning antimicrobial activity predictor6 retrained on updated data (‘APEX 1.1’ in Methods), to mine EPs within archaeal proteomes. As APEX predicted bacterial-strain-specific minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs), we used the mean MIC to represent the overall antimicrobial …
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Caffeine may help some bacteria keep antibiotics out of their cells, potentially reducing the therapeutic effects of the drugs, a new laboratory study hints. However, experts caution that it’s not yet clear how this effect might play out in humans, so caffeine drinkers needn’t panic yet. Scientists have known for decades that bacteria can protect themselves by pumping out harmful …
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When you’re sick you’ll often produce more phlegm, and might notice it’s thicker or a different colour: white, green, yellow or maybe even brown. What can this phlegm – also called mucus, snot, sputum, catarrh and booger – really tell us about our health? Here’s what to look for, and when to see a doctor. What is phlegm? We all …
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