Photodynamic inactivation using curcumin shows promise in reducing antibiotic resistance diversity in Staphylococcus aureus, ...

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

The researchers showed that when curcumin is intentionally given to bacteria as food and then activated by light, it can trigger deleterious reactions within these microbes, eventually killing them.

In 2017, a tragic incident unfolded in a Nevada hospital. A woman, admitted for pneumonia, tragically succumbed to multiple ...

Scratching an itchy rash worsens inflammation by triggering pain-sensing neurons and activating mast cells, creating a ...

PHAXIAM Therapeutics (Euronext: PHXM - FR0011471135), a biopharmaceutical company (“PHAXIAM” or “the Company”) developing innovative ...

In tests, the nanoflower-coated bandages inactivated a broad spectrum of cultured bacteria (including E. coli, Pseudomonas ...

Researchers studied genetically modified mice that lack NP2 itch-sensing neurons, to investigate the connection between itch, scratch, and inflammation.

Mice that were free to scratch their itchy ears saw the number of immune cells go up and levels of infection-causing bacteria ...

New research published in the journal Science uncovers how scratching aggravates inflammation and swelling in a mouse model ...

Scratching is often pleasurable, which suggests that, in order to have evolved, this behavior must provide some kind of ...

And, when paired up with antibiotics, the protein also helped improve their effectiveness against other infection-causing bacteria, including Staphylococcus aureus (which leads to staph infections ...