giovedì 14 dicembre 2017

SCIENTISTS DEVELOP NEW, RAPID PIPELINE FOR ANTIMICROBIALS

Phys. Org - With hospitals more often reaching for antibiotics of last resort to fight infections and recent Ebola and Zika outbreaks crossing borders like never before, the worldwide scientific community has been challenged with developing new antimicrobials to safeguard the population.
The research arm of the U.S. Department of Defense, the Defense Advanced Research Program Agency, or DARPA, is known for taking on out-sized challenges such as this. And so, they put out a call for researchers to figure out how to make at least 1000 doses to any unknown pathogen - in a week. 
An ASU team was one of the few that rose to this challenge.
"As far as we know we were the only team to figure out how to do this for any pathogen - virus or ... >>>

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