Daily Archives: October 17, 2022

A way to make Staphylococcus aureus more vulnerable to antibiotics

Scientists have discovered a compound that makes the bacterium methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) more vulnerable to antibiotics. The work of British biologists from the University of Bath was published in the journal Frontiers in Microbiology. Staphylococcus aureus causes difficult-to-treat diseases such as sepsis and pneumonia. It differs in that it is resistant to most antibiotics…

Pain stimulates defense mechanisms in the body

Researchers from Harvard Medical School have found in experiments on mice that pain neurons in the mouse gut regulate the presence of protective mucus under normal conditions and stimulate intestinal cells to secrete more mucus during states of inflammation. The research by scientists published in the journal Cell states that the intestine and respiratory tract…