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Researchers have discovered that cerebrospinal fluid, the brain's shock absorber, may cause treatment resistance in people with brain cancer. But they identified a sixty-year-old drug that can be repurposed to resensitize cancer cells to treatment.

Researchers have, for the first time, observed a mechanism used by cancer cells to resist the effects of chemotherapy. The findings could be used to develop targeted drugs to help override it and make chemotherapy more effective.

Cockroaches have been known to develop resistances to individual insecticides for decades, but new research has shown that they’re also able to rapidly develop cross-resistance, even to chemicals that they’ve never been directly exposed to.

A UK study has found that regular surfers were three times more likely to have an antibiotic resistant strain of E. coli bacteria in their gut than non-surfers, suggesting surfers are more likely to be at risk from these microorganisms.

Researchers are developing and testing a new type of blast-resistant glass embedded with glass fibers that will be thinner, lighter and less vulnerable to small-scale explosions than conventional blast-resistant glass.