Can plant extracts help treat infections and prevent diseases? Researchers reveal how bioactive compounds from fruits and ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) and other stakeholders have called for the integration of antimicrobial stewardship in policy frameworks and health facilities in the ...

Researchers found examples of a previously unknown antibiotic molecule in soil samples collected from a colleague's garden.

Amid a surge in drug-resistant bacteria, researchers believe they have discovered a new class of antibiotics for the first ...

That process led to the group discovering a lasso peptide that exhibited broad-spectrum antibiotic activity and was effective ...

Human extracellular matrices can be edited in their composition using the CRISPR/Cas9 system, leading to materials exhibiting tailored regenerative capacities.

Secondary school students Misha Hegde and Mia Maurer are investigating whether special viruses, called bacteriophages, can be ...

With antibiotic resistance posing an ever-increasing threat to global health, discoveries like this highlight the importance ...

A new molecule, lariocidin, offers hope in the fight against antimicrobial resistance, killing drug-resistant bacteria with a ...

Researchers discovered lariocidin, a lasso peptide antibiotic that kills multidrug-resistant bacteria by binding a novel ...

Engineered frog-derived peptides may become powerful new antibiotics, showing strong results against resistant bacteria in early testing. Frogs have thrived for hundreds of millions of years, adapting ...

A small molecule shaped like a lasso may be a powerful tool in the fight against infectious diseases, according to a new study in Nature co-authored by University of Illinois Chicago researchers.