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Modern hospitals and antibiotic treatment alone did not create all the antibiotic resistant strains of bacteria we see today. Instead, selection pressures from before widespread use of antibiotics influenced some of them to develop, new research has discovered.
By using analytical and sequencing technology that has only been developed in recent years, scientists from Wellcome Sanger Institute, University of Oslo and University of Cambridge have created an evolutionary timeline of the bacterium, Enterococcus faecalis, which is a common bacterium that can cause antibiotic resistant infections in hospitals.
The results, published today (9th March 2021) in
Nature Communications show that this bacterium has the ability to adapt very quickly to selection pressures, such as the use of chemicals in farming as well as the development of new medications, which have caused different strains of the same bacterium to be found in many places worldwide, from the majority of people s
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Minister Heydon announces grant awards of â¬473,289 under ââJoint Programming Initiative â A Healthy Diet for a Healthy Lifeââ Research Call
The Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Martin Heydon T.D., today announced two new research grant awards by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. The awards amount to almost â¬475,000 and facilitate researchers in Teagasc and UCD to collaborate on international research projects relating to nutrition in older citizens. The funded projects are well aligned with national strategic ambitions for the agri-food sector to contribute positively to citizensâ health and well-being insofar as they focus on research relating to taste, nutritional profile and health inducing properties.
Teagasc has been awarded €250,000 while UCD has secured €225,000. \ Philip Doyle
Researchers in Teagasc and UCD have secured almost €475,000 in grant aid from the Department of Agriculture to collaborate on international projects relating to nutrition in older citizens.
Announcing the awards, Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture Martin Heydon said the projects selected focused on the development of food products aimed at the prevention of diet-related disease and issues relating to poor nutrition in older citizens.
“I am delighted to announce two new research awards for Irish-based researchers, which allow them to partner and collaborate with their European counterparts in addressing an important challenge relating to the protection of health and well-being in older citizens,” Minister Heydon said.
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