Common whitetail dragonfly. Credit: Christopher Johnson (Insects Unlocked, University of Texas at Austin Scientists reveal how nanomaterials inspired by insect wings are able to destroy…
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Sarecycline, a drug approved for use in the United States in 2018, is the first new antibiotic approved to treat acne in more than 40…
The leechbook. Credit: © The British Library Board (Royal 12 D xvii) To fight antibiotic resistance more antimicrobials are needed to treat bacterial biofilms, which…
Teixobactin structure. Credit: Shukla, R et al. Scientists at the University of Liverpool and University of Utrecht have taken another step forward on their quest…
A team of Princeton researchers led by Prof. Zemer Gitai have found an antibiotic that can simultaneously puncture bacterial walls and destroy folate within their…
When Sierra Simpson was in college, she was sick for a year with recurring fevers and vomiting. Her doctors couldn’t figure out what she had.…
Professor Eric Brown (left); research associate Maya Farha (centre), and postdoctoral fellow Omar El-Halfawy, are authors of the study and members of the Michael G.…
MIT researchers have identified a powerful new antibiotic compound using a machine-learning algorithm. A deep-learning model identifies a powerful new drug that can kill many…
New study aimed to assess the association between macrolides — a class of antibiotics used to treat common bacterial infections — and major malformations such…
Nearly 1 in 5 antibiotics prescribed to Medicaid patients without infection diagnosis. A new Northwestern Medicine study has found alarmingly high rates of inappropriate antibiotic…
Sticky antibiotic provides glue for successful treatment. Researchers have found how an antibiotic used to treat a debilitating gut infection stays put inside the body…
These are bacteria devastated by attack with the toxic arrowhead. Credit: T.E. Wood et al. (2019) A weapon bacteria use to vanquish their competitors could…
No evidence of infection found in the bacterial community around shark wounds. A survey of the shark skin microbiome provides the first step toward understanding…
A University of Georgia researcher is working to correct this misconception and public health threat. More than 30 million people in the United States wrongly…
Washington State University researchers have developed a novel way to identify previously unrecognized antibiotic-resistance genes in bacteria. By employing machine learning and game theory, the…
The health care market is failing to support new antibiotics used to treat some of the world’s most dangerous, drug-resistant “superbugs,” according to a new…
MIT engineers have programmed viruses called bacteriophages to kill different strains of E. coli, by making mutations in a viral protein that binds to host…
This was investigated by Dr. Ricarda Schmithausen and Dr. Daniel Exner from the University Hospital Bonn. (c) Photo: Volker Lannert/Uni Bonn Hygienists of the University…
Nagoya University researchers and colleagues in Japan have demonstrated a new strategy in fighting antibiotics resistance: the use of artificial haem proteins as a Trojan…
Wild Bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) swimming in Florida’s Indian River Lagoon. Credit: Brian Cousin, Florida Atlantic University’s Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute Antibiotic resistance is one…