Scientists from the Ineos Oxford Institute for antimicrobial research (IOI) have developed a new screening method to tackle bacterial resistance to the tetracycline class of antibiotics. The results ...

The team published its findings in Cell Chemical Biology ... infections remain available in the future, antibiotics that target different bacterial structures than currently approved drugs ...

In a boost to scientific advancement aimed at curbing the global threat of drug-resistant infections, researchers from the Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology-Delhi (IIIT-Delhi) and ...

For now, parents can be hopeful that a more effective, child-friendly treatment for ear infections may be on the horizon.

Researchers describe a fundamental mechanism of antibiotic resistance. What happens in a bacterium that is resistant to the ...

Scientists uncovered how the resistance protein FusB deflects fusidic acid in bacteria, using atomic-level imaging to reveal a crowbar-like resistance mechanism.

Researchers have discovered saarvienin A, a novel glycopeptide antibiotic from a rare earth mine bacterium. It shows potent ...

The team says the biosynthetic process used to produce this antibiotic could now possibly lead to the ... became interested in malonomycin because it has a highly unusual chemical structure. It ...

However, the nonribosomal peptide antibiotics are very complex structures which are difficult and expensive to produce by normal chemical methods. To address this, the Manchester team use gene editing ...

All antibiotics chemically target some important function or structure in the bacteria that keeps them alive and growing. One way is to interfere with how the bacteria make their own cell walls.