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

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 ...

The world urgently needs new antibiotics. In 2019 alone, antibiotic-resistant bacteria killed more than 4.5 million people ...

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.

Lariocidin, a peptide made by bacteria living in soil, was effective against several different microbes responsible for deadly infections. UIC researchers working with collaborators at McMaster ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a new class of antibiotics for treating uncomplicated urinary tract ...

Now, a team led by researchers at McMaster University in Ontario believe they’ve found a molecule that could lead to a whole ...