11:06, Thu, Dec 11, 2025 Updated: 11:12, Thu, Dec 11, 2025 As a "superflu" and other winter illnesses circulate, an alarming number of people are becoming unwell across the country this winter. This ...

Ansa Biotechnologies hauled in a total of $54.4 million in an oversubscribed series B round of financing that will be used to expand the company’s DNA synthesis production capacity in the U.S. The San ...

Acetaminophen has been available since the 1950s and in everyone’s medicine cabinet for so long that some of us treat it as a part of a food group. Now, surprisingly, it’s in the news. Much has ...

Nicholas Wood previously received funding from the NHMRC and has held a Churchill fellowship. Debra Kennedy does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or ...

FRIDAY, Aug. 29, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Common over-the counter painkillers might be quietly fueling antibiotic resistance, a new study warns. What’s more, the two drugs amplify this effect when used ...

Researchers in the UK have devised a very clever method using genetically modified E. coli to convert PET plastic waste into Tylenol (as if we need any more of it). Can this science solve two ...

Researchers at the University of Edinburgh have succeeded in transforming certain plastic waste into acetaminophen using the natural properties of the common bacterium Escherichia coli (E. coli). This ...

Scientists harness a new-to-nature reaction in E. coli to turn discarded plastics into life-saving medicines, charting a sustainable path for chemical manufacturing. a, A comparison of strategies for ...

Paracetamol (acetaminophen) production could be revolutionized by the discovery that a common bacterium can turn everyday plastic waste into the painkiller. The new method leaves virtually no carbon ...