Fungi is a potential goldmine for the production of pharmaceuticals. This is shown by Chalmers researchers, who have developed a method for finding new antibiotics from nature’s own resource... Read more
Antibiotics save lives every day, but there is a downside to their ubiquity. High doses can kill healthy cells along with infection-causing bacteria, while also spurring the creation of “sup... Read more
A new way to fight multidrug-resistant bacteria by blinding them rather than killing them proved highly effective in a model of burn injuries, UT Southwestern Medical Center research shows.... Read more
SOME people describe Darwinian evolution as “only a theory”. Try explaining that to the friends and relatives of the 700,000 people killed each year by drug-resistant infections. Resistance... Read more
An international team of including the Lomonosov Moscow State University researchers discovered which enzyme enables Escherichia coli bacterium (E. coli) to breathe. The study is published i... Read more
In what is being heralded as a groundbreaking discovery, scientists led by Monash and Walter and Eliza Hall Institute researcher, Thomas Naderer and James Vince, have shown that drugs, origi... Read more
A team of biologists and biomedical researchers at UC San Diego has developed a new method to determine if bacteria are susceptible to antibiotics within a few hours, an advance that could s... Read more
For years scientists have been aware of the potential problems of antibiotics being present in wastewater, and the research of Dr. Olya Keen is now showing that treatments to clean wastewate... Read more
Researchers in Switzerland and Japan have developed a rapid, simple and safe method for generating large libraries of novel organic molecules in a fraction of the time required for tradition... Read more
Opens up new avenues of research into thousands of similar molecules, many of which are likely to be medically useful. Researchers report in the journal Nature that they have made a breakthr... Read more
Pharmaceutical industry has withdrawn from the ‘antibiotic space.’ Is it time for research universities to step in? The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has said that at least 2 mi... Read more
There is only one marketed antibiotic for MRSA that can be taken orally A team of University of Notre Dame researchers led by Mayland Chang and Shahriar Mobashery have discovered a new class... Read more
A lifespan extension of 60 percent has been achieved in worms by disrupting a mechanism in mitochondria using simple antibiotics Why is it that within a homogeneous population of the same sp... Read more
Could mean good news in the battle against superbugs Antibiotic-resistant bacteria found in one of the deepest, most isolated caves in the world could mean good news in the battle against su... Read more
On a summer visit back to the farm here where I grew up, I think I figured out the central problem with modern industrial agriculture. Read more
