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Science Chronicle

A Science and Technology Blog

April 3, 2026

Science Chronicle

A Science and Technology Blog

Day: September 29, 2018

Antibiotic resistanceDrug resistanceHealthPodcastPublic HealthResearchScience

Podcast: How Klebsiella bacteria develop colistin resistance

  Abdul Ghafur explains how the team deciphered the mechanism by which Klebsiella bacteria develop resistance to colistin, a last-line antibiotic. Mutations

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Drug discoveryHealthPodcastResearchScienceTuberculosis (TB)

Podcast: New approaches to kill TB bacteria

  Amit Singh from IISc explains how a protein (WhiB4) that condenses the DNA of TB-causing bacteria in response to

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Antibiotic resistanceDrug resistanceFoodHealthPublic HealthResearchScience

Mechanism of colistin resistance in food Klebsiella bacteria unravelled

Researchers found colistin-resistant bacteria in 49% vegetable, meat samples in Chennai. They have for the first time deciphered the mechanism

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Drug discoveryHealthMedicineResearchScienceTuberculosis (TB)

IISc team finds new approaches to kill TB bacteria

IISc researchers have for the first time identified a protein (WhiB4) that condenses the DNA of TB-causing bacteria in response to

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