Antibiotic resistance causes 750,000 deaths annually around the world. To bring that number down, new types of antibiotics are required that circumvent the resistance certain bacteria have against drugs available today.Researchers at Karolinska Institutet, Umeå...
Annually 40'000 Americans are diagnosed with Lyme Disease, a condition with potentially severe consequences. It has the ability to infect the central nervous system, which in turn can cause partial paralysis and have an impact on the brain itself.mRNA-based...
Google's parent company Alphabet has started a new company that will use AI to discover new medicines. The company is called Isomorphic Labs and will use an AI based on the work of another Alphabet company, Deep Mind.Deep Mind has, among other things, developed...
Africa’s hope to end malaria is slowly becoming a reality following the successful trial run of a new malaria preventative drug capable of cutting infections and deaths on the continent by more than half a million young children annually.The intervention, known...
462 million people in the world today live with type 2 diabetes. A disease that increases the risk of dying from heart attack and stroke. It is possible to reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes significantly by changing your eating habits and exercising...
Pfizer has performed tests using a pill that can be used in infections with Covid-19 and the results are very promising. Paxlovid, as the pill is called, reduced the risk of dying or needing hospital care by 89 percent among patients who had just caught...