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The internal structure of an animal cell. Illustration: depositphotos.com

On bacteria and economy - the National Science Foundation

An examination of known growth laws that were discovered recently, led to the discovery of new growth laws
A specific and particularly successful phage named PASA16 discovered by the Israeli center treated 16 patients, most of them severe, and it demonstrates the high potential effectiveness of treatment in dealing with challenging and antibiotic-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections. Photography: Ronen Hazan

Innovative treatment with phages in antibiotic-resistant infections has over 80% success rate in Pseudomonas infections

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A new international study on treatment using the PASA16 phage (a virus that only kills bacteria), showed a success rate of over 80% and gives hope for a beneficial treatment for resistant infections
Prof. Omri Koren. Photo: Bar Ilan University Spokesperson

Antibiotics in pregnancy affect the behavior of the fetus

Prof. Omri Koren from the Faculty of Medicine won an ERC grant for his research dealing with the development of a post-biotic supplement to protect mothers and newborns
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The discovery that will advance personalized medicine for infectious diseases

This is the first time that researchers succeed in developing personalized tools for infectious diseases, which until now have only been developed for specific diseases such as cancer and Alzheimer's
Intestinal bacteria. Illustration: shutterstock

The effect of probiotic preparations varies from person to person, and may even be undesirable

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Ribosome imaging. Source: 2014, Wong et al, CC-BY 4.0 license.

The protein that anesthetizes the bacteria

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The Research Regulation Council: plans to ban experiments on antibiotic-resistant bacteria

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Photo: Technion spokespeople.

Researchers from the Technion have developed a system that allows rapid personalization of the antibiotic medication for the patient

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Dr. Zvi Chioka. Source: Courtesy of the Hebrew University.

Researchers have developed antibiotics against antibiotic-resistant bacteria

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Dr. Omri Koren, Bar Ilan Faculty of Medicine in the Galilee. Source: Bar Ilan University.

What is the effect of giving penicillin in early stages of life?

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Staphylococcus aureus bacteria. Source: NIAID.

The poisoned arrow of the golden bacterium

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antibiotic drugs. Illustration: pixabay.com.

"Antibiotics are like an atom bomb on the microbiome"

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E. coli bacteria, which the Hebrew University researchers examined in the first study described in the article. Source: NIAID.

Germ warfare

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Tasmanian devil. Image courtesy of Charlieatyourservice / wikimedia

On demons and bacteria

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Antibiotics inspired by the defense mechanisms of the insects

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Prof. Sidney Altman from Yale University. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1989 together with Thomas Czech for the study of the catalytic properties of the RNA "Catalytic RNA". Screenshot from the video of the WSCI 2015 conference held in Jerusalem, August 2015

Nobel laureate Sidney Altman: "It is possible to eliminate the resistance of many bacteria to antibiotics, the pharmaceutical companies are not so cooperative"

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germs. Illustration: shutterstock

A new type of antibiotic will eliminate bacteria resistant to existing drugs

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Super bacteria. Illustration: shutterstock

Small creatures, big trouble

antibiotics. Illustration: shutterstock

Excessive use of antibiotics / Dina Fine Maron

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Super bacteria. Illustration: shutterstock

Bacteria against superbugs / Charles K. Choi

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Prof. Ada Yonat at the opening plenary of the Life Sciences Baltics conference held in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania on September 12, 2012. Photo by Avi Blizovsky

The reluctance of pharmaceutical companies to develop new antibiotics for economic reasons could set us back decades when it comes to life expectancy

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Bacterial resistance to antibiotics. Illustration: national review of medicine

Researchers from Tel Aviv University have developed a method that neutralizes the bacteria's ability to create resistance to antibiotics

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Graphical description of the activity of antibacterial drugs. From Wikipedia

Improved antibiotic coating

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The proposed route of the metal transfer in the investigated pump.

The structure that gives bacteria resistance to drugs has been identified

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A chemical lab the size of a credit card. Photo: Polish Academy of Sciences

A chemical lab the size of a credit card

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