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Drug-susceptibility Testing in TB: Current Status and Future Prospects

In recent years, many efforts have been undertaken to establish new methods for DST to be used on a routine level. The epidemiology of drug-resistant and MDR-TB has posed an enormous need for faster ...
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Correlation of drug susceptibility testing on short term cultures of CTCs positively with clinical outcomes in non-small cell lung cancer.

Biomarkers to predict the efficacy of immune checkpoint inhibitors in patients with non-small-cell lung cancer with actionable genetic alterations. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2023 ASCO ...
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A microfluidics chip for drug sensitivity test to battle bloodstream infection

Viable bacteria in the blood, i.e., bacteremia, can lead to bloodstream infection (BSI) and sepsis, a syndromic, often fatal, inflammatory response. Rapid and accurate antimicrobial prescriptions are ...
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To promote drug safety, FDA to replace animal testing with AI-based experiments, other methods

April 10 (UPI) --The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is replacing animal testing with human-relevant methods, including artificial intelligence, when developing monoclonal antibody therapies and ...
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Powerful new tool to battle against cancer-causing bacteria in our stomach

Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori), the bacteria that can cause human gastritis, peptic ulcers and stomach cancer, infects about half of the world's population. It is essential to quickly identify the ...
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Drug-susceptibility Testing in TB: Current Status and Future Prospects

For 2007, the WHO estimated 511,000 cases of multidrug-resistant (MDR)-TB, representing approximately 5% of all TB cases worldwide. Extensively drug-resistant (XDR-TB) strains have been detected in at ...