cockroach brains, new antibiotics?

 cockroaches may make your skin crawl, but the insects—or, to be exact, their brains—could one day save your life.

drug resistant superbug detected in japan

  A hospital linked to the Dokkyo medical university in Tochigi prefecture north of Tokyo detected a drug resistant "super bug", a bacterium carrying the new delhi metallo-lactamase-1(NDM-1) gene, in a patient last year...