The molecule was promising, but Bradley and his team thought ... Hergenrother is optimistic that the field will see approvals for new antibiotics soon. “There's a reasonable supply of candidates,” he ...

Researchers at LSU are discovering a way to fight back against drug-resistant bacteria through a new medicine.

The story of penicillin - the first antibiotic used successfully to treat people with serious infectious diseases - begins with a bit of luck. Alexander Fleming, a British scientist, noticed in ...

Bacterial biofilms form when free-swimming bacteria transition from a single-celled lifestyle to multicellular organisms. These multicellular biofilms are responsible for 80% or more of chronic ...