I would love to take part in a challenge like this one! In the UK they are handing over 8 million pounds to market the solution of the winner of challenge that will develop the next-generation diagnostic tool that will be used to determine if and which antibiotics are administered to a patient in need…Continue reading The Longitude Prize: develop a diagnostic tool to help combat antibiotic resistance
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Fluorescent wound dressings signal infection
Researchers in the UK have developed a wound dressing that produces fluorescent light when it comes into contact with the toxins produced by a biofilm in which pathogenic bacteria are residing in the wound. The visual cue is supposedly helpful in starting antibiotic therapy at an earlier time point, which might be helpful in preventing the…Continue reading Fluorescent wound dressings signal infection
Zika virus outbreak in Brazil
Some facts about the current Zika virus ‘outbreak’ in Brazil: A few deaths have been reported in people who had been diagnosed with dengue fever and who died due to worsening symptoms. These patients were shown post-mortem to be infected with Zika virus. Worsening of dengue-fever-like symptoms hence will need to be treated as such…Continue reading Zika virus outbreak in Brazil
Food Hacking Base at 32C3 needs your support!
And this year again, Food Hacking Base will be at 32C3 to promote all sorts of weird and mad food hacking. Support them via the link below: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/food-hacking-base-in-hamburg-during-32c3-with-you#/