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Bio-IT World January 21, 2005 Mark D. Uehling	How to Find a New TB Drug Scientists at Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) have announced the first novel class of antibiotics in 40 years. The diarylquinolines, as the new compounds will be known, could offer shorter treatment regimens and be a precise weapon against tuberculosis.
Chemistry World April 27, 2011 Carol Stanier	Drug cocktails greater than the sum of their parts Canadian scientists have shown that combining an antibiotic that is past its prime with other drugs can give it a new lease of life.
Chemistry World May 6, 2014 Andy Extance	WHO raises alarm on deadly bacteria The World Health Organization has warned antibiotic resistant bacteria could bring a nightmarish future, where seemingly trivial scrapes turn lethal, and currently routine operations become too risky to contemplate.
Chemistry World September 15, 2013 Andy Extance	Light-switch antibiotics could undermine resistance Dutch chemists have made a new weapon to fight bacteria: an antibiotic whose microbe-killing activity they can turn on using ultraviolet light, before it slowly diminishes.
Chemistry World January 10, 2010 Simon Hadlington	Antibiotic decay products reverse resistance In a colony of bacteria living in the presence of an antibiotic in natural environments, individuals that are sensitive to the antibiotic can co-exist with those that are resistant, whereas logic would dictate that only resistant bacteria should survive.
IEEE Spectrum February 2009 Monica Heger	Computer-Designed Drugs Could Thwart Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Researchers use computer algorithms to tweak enzymes that make antibiotics
Chemistry World January 8, 2015 Matthew Gunther	New antibiotic could treat infection while dodging resistance problems A new antibiotic that can kill life-threatening bacteria -- without them appearing to be able to develop resistance to the drug -- has been discovered by a team of scientists.
Chemistry World April 4, 2007 John Bonner	Antibiotic Combinations Tackle Resistance Using combinations of certain antimicrobial compounds can favor the growth of non-resistant strains of bacteria at the expense of resistant ones. The surprising finding may provide a general strategy to help eradicate strains of bacteria that are resistant to antibiotic therapy.
HHMI Bulletin Spring 2013 Sarah C.P. Williams	Sounding the Alarm Details on how cells detect and respond to foreign DNA may provide clues to autoimmune diseases.
Chemistry World August 29, 2007 Ananyo Bhattacharya	'Lost' Folate Enzyme Found After 30 Years US researchers have revealed the identity of an enzyme used by bacteria to make the essential B vitamin folate, 30 years after it was first isolated.
Chemistry World January 30, 2015 Rebecca Trager	Billion dollar package unveiled to fight antibiotic resistance President Obama has made a huge investment in the fight against antibiotic resistant bacteria
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Fast Company May 2009 Elizabeth Svoboda	Biotechs Wage War on Superbugs With antibiotic resistance on the rise, three biotechs are developing new ways to wage war on superbugs.
Chemistry World November 6, 2009 Phillip Broadwith	Enzyme binds both sides of the mirror European chemists have discovered that both mirror-image forms of a particular compound can bind at the same time in the same site of an enzyme, a phenomenon that has never been seen before.
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Chemistry World October 31, 2008 Manisha Lalloo	DNA-rewinding protein discovered US scientists have found an enzyme that rewinds sections of DNA whose strands have mistakenly come apart.
Technology Research News January 29, 2003 Kimberly Patch	Data stored in live cells Every type of storage media -- from stone to paper to magnetic disks -- is subject to destruction. Researchers from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory are tapping forces of nature to store information more permanently.
Chemistry World May 29, 2014 Carla Pegoraro	Dual warhead kills and disarms bacteria A compound that kills bacteria and cleaves their DNA to prevent them passing on drug-resistant genes has been designed by researchers in India.
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American Family Physician February 1, 2002 Catherine M. Oliphant	Quinolones: A Comprehensive Review With the recent introduction of agents such as gatifloxacin and moxifloxacin, the traditional gram-negative coverage of fluoroquinolones has been expanded to include specific gram-positive organisms...
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Mother Jones December 2000 Edwin Dobb	Growing Resistance Is agribusiness squandering one of medicine's most potent weapons?
Chemistry World March 6, 2008 Simon Hadlington	Synthetic Enzymes Designed by Computer Scientists in the US have designed and built an artificial enzyme from scratch.
Chemistry World March 3, 2009 Lewis Brindley	Sweet-toothed bacteria make their own vaccine With careful feeding, bacteria can produce vaccines against themselves, scientists in the US and China have found.
Chemistry World January 20, 2014 Martha Henriques	Fast test classifies meningitis bacteria Researchers in the UK have developed a new method that uses surface enhanced Raman scattering to quickly identify which meningitis causing bacteria is responsible for an infection.
Chemistry World August 28, 2007 Tom Westgate	Repairing DNA Could Let Frozen Bacteria Survive for Millennia An international team of scientists believe they have strong evidence that bacteria trapped in permafrost are able to survive for hundreds of thousands of years by repairing their DNA.
Chemistry World May 15, 2006 Jon Evans	Selective DNA Crystals A molecular biologist has developed a molecular sieve using a DNA crystal with nanoscale channels.
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Chemistry World June 21, 2007 Simon Hadlington	Boron is Key to Antifungal Agent Researchers have shown that the presence of a boron atom is key to an antifungal agent being developed to treat infections of fingernails and toenails.
Chemistry World November 16, 2006 Simon Hadlington	Gene-Reading Enzyme Catapulted by Scrunch Power Two teams of researchers have solved a conundrum that has baffled molecular biologists for 20 years -- how the enzyme responsible for `reading' genes can release itself from the portion of DNA to which it initially binds extremely tightly.
Chemistry World October 13, 2015 Simon Hadlington	DNA movement through motor proteins measured Researchers have adapted a method for DNA sequencing to measure directly and with exquisite sensitivity the movement of a single molecule of DNA as it is drawn through specialized motor proteins.
Chemistry World July 13, 2015 Ida Emilie Steinmark	X-ray emitting bacterial plasmas could enhance imaging The possibility of using engineered bacteria as x-ray plasma sources, which could significantly improve resolution in medical and molecular imaging.
Chemistry World October 29, 2013 Harriet Brewerton	Paper device spots antibiotic-resistant bacteria Scientists in Canada have developed a paper-based device that checks if bacteria are resistant to certain antibiotics. The simple system could help users in remote areas.
Chemistry World March 6, 2013 Derek Lowe	New antibiotics: what's the hold up? Money's a factor that could be adjusted by regulatory agencies, governments, and foundations. But no amount of cash will keep resistant bacteria from being the hard targets they are.
Chemistry World October 25, 2011 Jon Evans	Carbon nanotubes detect DNA 'flipping out' US chemists have developed a way to detect the chemical modification of a single strand of DNA, by hooking it up to a pair of carbon nanotubes.
Chemistry World September 11, 2013 Andria Nicodemou	Bacteria incriminated by their odor Researchers in Taiwan and the US have developed a device that uses the volatile organic compounds released by bacteria to identify the bacteria as they are cultured.
Technology Research News September 24, 2003	Glow shows individual DNA Researchers have made a type of artificial DNA of that glows when it combines with a specific sequence of natural DNA. In principle, the method could be used to develop DNA chips that directly sense individual DNA molecules.
Chemistry World June 30, 2011 Laura Howes	Chemically evolved bacteria European scientists have created an Escherichia coli strain with a separate genome using chlorinated DNA.
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Chemistry World May 6, 2009 Phillip Broadwith	Nano-boxes from DNA origami Danish researchers have made a nano-sized box out of DNA that can be locked or opened in response to 'keys' made from short strands of DNA.
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Chemistry World October 19, 2009 Simon Hadlington	DNA stretching mystery solved A detailed understanding of the elastic properties of DNA can give scientists key insights into interactions of DNA and the proteins that carry out these manipulations.
Chemistry World January 24, 2013 Laura Howes	Shall I compare thee to a strand of DNA? For billions of years DNA has been life's data storage medium. Now, scientists have used DNA to code and store their media and information, from all of Shakespeare's sonnets to an audio recording of Martin Luther King's 'I have a dream' speech.