From February 2022 to February 2023, they collected (using cotton swabs) and genetically sequenced bacterial samples from six ...

At least three patients at Victoria Hospital's palliative care unit have tested positive for the ...

Integrating the nanoflowers into a wound dressing helps to fight harmful bacteria while keeping healthy human cells intact.

Silver nanoparticles (Ag-NPs) have long been celebrated for their antimicrobial properties. These microscopic marvels find applications in fields ranging from medicine to food preservation. However, ...

Researchers at the UNC School of Medicine have proven that antibiotic-resistant strains of a harmful bacteria thrive in a diabetic infection environment.

People with diabetes are more prone to developing Staphylococcus aureus, a leading cause of infections and death associated ...

Study results indicated that controlling diabetes with insulin helps to prevent the emergence of antibiotic-resistant S. aureus.

London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) declared an outbreak of superbug MRSA, a bacteria resistant to many antibiotics, at Victoria Hospital on Wednesday. The MRSA outbreak, which stands for methicillin ...

Antibiotics are powerful, fast-acting medications designed to eradicate bacterial infections. However, in recent years, their dependability has waned as antibiotic resistant bacteria continues to ...

Healing severe wounds requires strong, safe, and effective dressings to prevent infections. Researchers at the University of Lincoln and Shibaura Institute of Technology have developed a new type of ...

When all you’ve got is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. And when you’ve got a scanning electron microscope, everything must look like a sample that would be really, really interesting ...

Electron microscopy uses a beam of electrons to illuminate a sample and achieve much higher spatial resolution than light microscopy. Transmission electron microscopy generates an image of the ...