Anaerobic bacteria were among the first life forms on Earth and existed at a time when there was no oxygen in the atmosphere.

New strategy proposed for efficient degradation of antibiotics Peer-Reviewed Publication. Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences ...

Recently, a research team led by Prof. KONG Lingtao from Institute of Solid State Research, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of Chinese Academy of Sciences proposed a pre-assembly strategy to ...

Degradation of cell wall key in the spread of antibiotic resistance. ScienceDaily . Retrieved May 14, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2024 / 07 / 240701131812.htm ...

Indeed, as immune cells patrol the body, they check out protein pieces called antigens that are generated when proteins are ...

To the Editor: The article by Kundsin and Miller in the December 31, 1964, issue of the Journal, in taking up the matter of failure of eradication of Group A streptococci with penicillin therapy, ...

Batchelor, F. R., et al. Synthesis of penicillin: 6-aminopenicillanic acid in penicillin fermentations. Nature (London) 183:257, 1959.

An international research team has investigated how nanoplastic particles deposited in the body affect the effectiveness of antibiotics. The study showed that the plastic particles not only impair ...

Figure 1 | How human cells make antibiotics. a , Folded proteins can contain antimicrobial peptides (red) 2 . Proteins can be recycled into peptides though degradation machinery called the proteasome.

Although penicillin was discovered on September 28, 1928 by Andrew Fleming, a British physician and professor of bacteriology at St. Mary’s Hospital in London, it took fourteen years for the ...

Penicillin made a difference during the first half of the 20th century. The first patient was successfully treated for streptococcal septicemia in the United States in 1942.