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Venom and Hot Peppers Offer a Key to Killing Resistant Bacteria

https://www.wired.com/story/mexican-science-transforms-scorpion-venom-and-habanero-chile-into-antibiotics-against-resistant-bacteria/

#HackerNews #venom #hotpeppers #resistantbacteria #antibiotics #sciencenews

Venom and Hot Peppers Offer a Key to Killing Resistant Bacteria

Researchers have developed three new antibiotics from scorpion venom and habanero peppers to combat tuberculosis and other drug-resistant pathogens.

WIRED
Petra van CronenburgMar 14

#Superbugs - happens if you put #sewage into water: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/14/lough-neagh-northern-ireland-genes-antibiotic-resistance-superbugs

#Enshittification with real 💩 "Alongside the resistance genes, markers of human, cow and pig faeces were detected in the water. Sewage and livestock slurry create ideal conditions for superbugs, flushing pathogens, antibiotic residues and resistant bacteria into waterways where they can mix, multiply and spread."

#resistantBacteria #GB #water #environment #pollution #Ireland

‘Drinking from a fetid pond’: superbug-creating genes found in UK’s largest lake

Exclusive: Lough Neagh, which supplies drinking water for 40% of NI, contains genes resistant to last-resort antibiotics

The Guardian
Punk Metal n BowieJan 9, 2025
This is interesting:
#Zinc deprivation reveals vulnerability in #resistantbacteria, reviving old antibiotics
https://phys.org/news/2025-01-zinc-deprivation-reveals-vulnerability-resistant.html
Zinc deprivation reveals vulnerability in resistant bacteria, reviving old antibiotics

Researchers at McMaster University have discovered a critical vulnerability in drug-resistant bacteria: zinc—or a lack thereof.

Phys.org
Phys.orgJun 1, 2023

Referenced link: https://phys.org/news/2023-06-chemists-class-antibiotics-resistant-bacteria.html
Discuss on https://discu.eu/q/https://phys.org/news/2023-06-chemists-class-antibiotics-resistant-bacteria.html

Originally posted by Phys.org / @physorg_com: http://nitter.platypush.tech/physorg_com/status/1664272352438538240#m

Chemists develop a new class of antibiotics to fight #resistantbacteria @ScienceAdvances https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adg3683 https://phys.org/news/2023-06-chemists-class-antibiotics-resistant-bacteria.html

Chemists develop a new class of antibiotics to fight resistant bacteria

Health professionals are in urgent need of new antibiotics to tackle resistant bacteria. Researchers at the University of Zurich and the company Spexis have now modified the chemical structure of naturally occurring peptides to develop antimicrobial molecules that bind to novel targets in the bacteria's metabolism.

Phys.org