Recent discoveries are helping scientists face this challenge in innovative ways. Studies have found that nearly a quarter of drugs that aren’t normally prescribed as antibiotics, such as medications ...

Antibiotic resistance is a global health challenge that could overtake cancer mortality within a few decades. In a new study, ...

Researchers have discovered a new antibiotic molecule that targets a broad range of disease-causing bacteria — even strains ... previously unknown tricks to kill pathogens.

have discovered a powerful candidate antibiotic that can kill a broad range of bacteria, including those resistant to existing antibiotics. They have published the findings in the journal Nature.

Researchers believe they have identified a new class of antibiotics ... infections caused by drug-resistant bacteria. "Because this microbe can kill bacteria in a way that it can't evolve to ...

A sweetener used in dairy, beverages and candies may be a game-changing solution to the global antimicrobial resistance ...

coli. Most UTIs are easy to treat, usually clearing up within a few days or weeks after a short course of antibiotics. But the bacteria that commonly cause them are increasingly becoming ...

That process led to the group discovering a lasso peptide that exhibited broad-spectrum antibiotic activity and was effective at killing both gram-positive and gram-negative pathogenic bacteria ...

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria is a serious public health threat. Understanding the biology of these bacteria--such as how they synthesise their protective capsules--is essential for developing new ...

Researchers have identified a new molecule with antibiotic activity against a range of disease-causing bacteria, including those resistant to existing drugs. The new molecule — isolated from ...

The discovery of the all-new class of antibiotics responds to a critical need for new antimicrobial medicines, as bacteria and other microorganisms evolve new ways to withstand existing drugs.

"No one knew that lasso peptides could bind to the ribosome and kill bacteria by not allowing them to make new proteins." Because lariocidin binds at a site different from where other antibiotics ...