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 ...

Alexander Fleming’s 1928 discovery of a mold with antibacterial properties was only the first serendipitous event on the long road to penicillin as a life-saving drug. Hannah is an Assistant Editor at ...

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 ...

To understand how the ancestor of today's glycopeptide antibiotics—such as vancomycin ... antibiotic "paleomycin" or "Frankenstein molecule" to life. Illustration Leon Kokkoliadis, Libera ...

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 ...