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Researchers in Japan devise method to produce steroid antibiotics

A group of steroid antibiotic compounds derived from fungi have shown promising antimicrobial activity. A group of researchers at the University of Tokyo, Japan, has …

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Superbugs: First Independent Comparison of Pharma Companies' Efforts to Address Drug-resistant Infections

The first independent analysis of pharmaceutical industry efforts to tackle drug resistance, published today, finds that as well as developing new drugs companies are also dismantling the incentives that encourage sales staff to oversell …

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Call for ‘renewed focus’ on deadly threat from antibiotic resistance

The spectre of a dwindling supply of effective antibiotics is considered one of the gravest threats to public health – one that could soon claim …

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