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Scientists at Imperial College London just won £3.1 million to crack one of medicine's toughest puzzles: how to outsmart drug-resistant bacteria that kill millions. Their secret weapon combines artificial intelligence with chemistry to design antibiotics that can break through bacterial defenses.
Nine youth teams across Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East just won funding to tackle a health crisis threatening 39 million lives. Their creative campaigns will help communities use antibiotics more wisely.
Researchers at MIT are combining synthetic biology with artificial intelligence to create a new weapon against deadly antibiotic-resistant infections. The $3 million project could save millions of lives worldwide by designing programmable antibacterials that outsmart evolving superbugs.
After decades of growth, global livestock antibiotic use peaked in 2013 and then fell by nearly a third by 2020, according to a major new study from University College London. The decline shows that government action can effectively tackle antimicrobial resistance, which currently causes 700,000 deaths worldwide each year.
A novel antibiotic called FOVISCU has achieved a 93.23% clinical cure rate in Phase 3 trials, matching the effectiveness of current gold-standard treatment meropenem. This breakthrough offers fresh hope in the global fight against antimicrobial resistance. #
Doctors at India's top medical institute are winning battles against drug-resistant bacteria using faster tests and smarter treatments. Their work could save millions of lives worldwide by 2050.
Ghana is transforming a 1960s-era medical lab into West Africa's premier infectious disease research hub. The upgraded facility will tackle antimicrobial resistance and prepare the nation for future pandemics.