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Tübinger Forscher decken Tarnkappenstrategie multiresistenter Keime auf

By Guest PostJanuary 18, 2019Healthandreas peschel, krankheitserreger, mrsa, multiresistenter keime, staphylococcus aureus, tarnkappenstrategie, therapien gegen bakterien, thilo stehle

Durchbruch in der Erforschung gefürchteter Krankheitserreger – Bislang unbekanntes Protein in einer Schlüsselrolle

Forscherinnen und Forschern der Universität Tübingen und des Deutschen Zentrums für Infektionsforschung (DZIF) ist ein Durchbruch bei der Entschlüsselung multiresistenter Krankheitskeime gelungen. Das Team um Professor Andreas Peschel und Professor Thilo Stehle konnte Struktur und Funktion eines bislang unbekannten Proteins aufklären, mit dessen Hilfe sich gefürchtete Erreger wie Staphylococcus aureus gegenüber dem menschlichen Immunsystem wie mit einer Tarnkappe schützen. Die Studie wurde am Mittwoch im Fachmagazin Nature veröffentlicht. (more…)

Testing Water for Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria

By Guest PostOctober 26, 2014Scienceantibiotic resistant bacteria, arizona, brian ellis, doctoral candidate, erich bornberg bauer, for, gilbert, health risk, hti, human toxicity impact, judith korb, lu chen, methicillin-resistant, mrsa, pcr, polymerase chain reaction, shale gas production, soziale evolution, staphylococcus aureus, test tube, tucson area, university of arizona, wastewater treatment plant

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are an important concern for disease prevention in the future. UA doctoral candidate Victoria Obergh is testing Tucson-area wastewater systems to find out where these bacteria can be found.

In the lab, Victoria Obergh transfers bacterial DNA samples into a tray. A graduate student in the University of Arizona’s Department of Soil, Water and Environmental Science, part of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Obergh works with the samples under a sterile hood sporting an ultraviolet light to kill any unwanted DNA. (more…)

OhioHealth and IBM Scientists Join Forces to Prevent Infections in Hospitals

By Guest PostJanuary 10, 2014Technologybig data analytics, clostridium difficile, hais, ibm, infections in hospitals, methicillin-resistant, michael krouse, mrsa, ohiohealth, power of technology, prevent, radio frequency identification, rfid, sergio bermudez, staphylococcus aureus, superbugs like mrsa, Technology

Wireless technology and real-time Big Data analytics boost hand hygiene 20%

YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, N.Y. & COLUMBUS, OH. – 10 Jan 2014: OhioHealth andIBM today announced a collaboration to aid in the prevention of infections using a first-of-a-kind network of wireless sensors and real-time Big Data analytics that measure hand-washing practices. OhioHealth will use the technology to provide hospital administrators with real-time data that can be used to reduce healthcare associated infections (HAIs) like methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and Clostridium difficile, which affect 1 in every 20 patients in U.S. healthcare facilities.

Already, the pilot project in Columbus has achieved more than 90 percent compliance with hand-washing standards – a 20 percent jump over its previous practices and well above the 50 percent national compliance level. (more…)

IBM Research and Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology Convert Recycled Plastics into Disease Fighting Nanofibers

By Guest PostDecember 9, 2013Health, Technologyaids, almaden, antibiotic treatment, biocompatible materials, body, breakthrough with ibm, c albicans, cancer, disease fighting nanofibers, drug discovery, fungal blood infections, fungal membrane, hiv, hydrogen bonding process, ibm research, ibn, immune system, jackie y ying, james hedrick, medicine, mic, minimum inhibitory concentration, mrsa, nanotechnology convert, nature comm, organic catalytic process, pet bottles, polyethylene terephthalate, polymer like form, recycled plastics, targeted diseased sites, yi yan yang

Opens new applications for the nearly 5.5 billion pounds of PET bottles and jars available annually for recycling

SAN JOSE, Calif – 09 Dec 2013: Researchers from IBM and the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology have made a nanomedicine breakthrough in which they converted common plastic materials like polyethylene terephthalate (PET) into non-toxic and biocompatible materials designed to specifically target and attack fungal infections. This research was published today in the peer-reviewed journal, Nature Comm. (more…)

Staphylococcus aureus bacteria turns immune system against itself

By Guest PostDecember 6, 2013Healthadenosine synthase a, adsa gene, antibiotic resistant strain, bloodstream, dado, deoxyadenosine, destroy, DNA, dominique m missiakas, human function, immune defense mechanism, immune system, kevin jiang, macrophage, mrsa, mutation, nets, neutrophil extracellular traps, nuc, olaf schneewind, protein, s. aureus, staphylococcal nuclease, staphylococcus aureus bacteria, university of chicago, vilasack thammavongsa, white blood cells

Around 20 percent of all humans are persistently colonized with Staphylococcus aureus bacteria, a leading cause of skin infections and one of the major sources of hospital-acquired infections, including the antibiotic-resistant strain MRSA.

University of Chicago scientists have recently discovered one of the keys to the immense success of S. aureus—the ability to hijack a primary human immune defense mechanism and use it to destroy white blood cells. The study was published Nov. 15 in Science. (more…)

Mobile health technologies to rapidly test and track infectious diseases

By Guest PostMay 14, 2013Health, Technologyadvances in nanotechnology, big data analysis, bing, biomarker discovery, calum mcneil, cepheid, david willetts, deadly diseases, deenan pillay, early warning, epsrc irc, Facebook, flu epidemics, genomics, geographically linked information, google trends, gp surgeries, hiv, internet, irc, Microsoft, mobile health technologies, mobile phone, mrsa, new british technologies, next generation solutions, o2 health, oj bio, outbreaks, pathogen specific fingerprints, prototype test, rachel mckendry, search engine queries, sensor systems, serious infectious diseases, Social networking sites, strains of influenza, symptoms of infection, temperature stable biomimetic, tracking systems, Twitter, ucl, xfab, zurich instruments

Early-warning sensor systems that can test and track serious infectious diseases – such as major flu epidemics, MRSA and HIV – using mobile phones and the internet are being developed by a major new Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration (IRC) led by UCL.

The new £11 million IRC, funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (total investment £16 million), will develop mobile health technologies that allow doctors to diagnose and track diseases much earlier than ever before. (more…)

IBM Reveals Five Innovations That Will Change Our Lives within Five Years

By Guest PostDecember 17, 2012Technologyanatomy, antibiotic resistant bacteria, baby talk, bernie meyerson, cognitive computing systems, cognitive systems, ct scans, era, era of computing, five innovations, galway bay, hendrik hamann, human brain, human views, ibm, ibm scientists, ibm technology, ibm5in5, intuitive interaction, ireland, methicillin-resistant, modalities, mris, mrsa, noise level, pathologies, sensors, smartphone, speech recognition system, staphylococcus aureus, touch experience, ultrasound images, video, visual data, visual media, wedding dress, x-rays, YouTube

Breakthroughs will mark the era of cognitive systems when computers will, in their own way, see, smell, touch, taste and hear

ARMONK, N.Y. – 17 Dec 2012: Today IBM unveiled the seventh annual “IBM 5 in 5” (#ibm5in5) – a list of innovations that have the potential to change the way people work, live and interact during the next five years.

The IBM 5 in 5 is based on market and societal trends as well as emerging technologies from IBM’s R&D labs around the world that can make these transformations possible. (more…)

‘Chemical Compounds in Trees Can Fight Deadly Staph Infections in Humans’

By Guest PostFebruary 23, 2011Health, Scienceacne treatment, anti bacterial, antibiotic, bacteria, brian thompson, cash crop, cedar needles, chung ho lin, evolving bacterium, farmers, george stewart, immune systems, key to fighting a deadly bacterium, little economic value, methicillin-resistant, missouri, mrsa, pneumonia, red cedar tree, resistant to most medications, skin, skin cancer, staph infections, staphylococcus aureus, superbug, toxic shock syndrome, trash tree, tree species

COLUMBIA, Mo. – Most people would never suspect that a “trash tree,” one with little economic value and often removed by farmers due to its ability to destroy farmland, could be the key to fighting a deadly bacterium. Now, a University of Missouri researcher has found an antibiotic in the Eastern Red Cedar tree that is effective against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), a “superbug” that is resistant to most medications.

“I wanted to find a use for a tree species that is considered a nuisance,” said Chung-Ho Lin, research assistant professor in the MU Center for Agroforestry at the College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources. “This discovery could help people fight the bacteria as well as give farmers another cash crop.” (more…)