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Scientists Use Bear Saliva to Rapidly Test for Antibiotics

September 13, 2018

The super-fast screening technology could help to discover new treatments

Red or Yellow? A Simple Paper Test Detects False or Substandard Antibiotics

August 22, 2018

Researchers have put chemistry to work on a simple, inexpensive way to identify counterfeit antibiotics—a serious probl...

New Study Finds Fake, Low-Quality Medicines Prevalent in the Developing World

August 13, 2018

Substandard and falsified medicines, including medicines to treat malaria, are a serious problem in much of the world

Bacterial Armor Could Be a New Target for Antibiotics, Stanford Team Finds

July 24, 2018

Researchers have found that a thin membrane, thought to be just a shrink wrap around some bacterial cell walls, has structura...

Boston College Team Reports Technology to Enable Precision Antibiotics

June 30, 2018

Chemically enhanced phage display proves capable of recognizing specific strains of bacterial pathogens

A New Class of Antibiotics to Combat Drug Resistance

April 9, 2018

Newly discovered antibiotic binds to ribosome, disrupts protein synthesis

Beewolves Have Been Successfully Using the Same Antibiotics for 68 Million Years

February 13, 2018

The antibiotic cocktail produced by bacteria did not change very much over the course of its evolution and its antipathogenic...

Study Sheds New Light on Antibiotics Produced by Ants

February 9, 2018

To deal with the bacteria that cause diseases, some ants produce their own antibiotics

Promise of New Antibiotics Lies with Shackling Tiny Toxic Tetherballs to Bacteria

January 11, 2018

Biologists at the University of Texas at Austin have developed a method for rapidly screening hundreds of thousands of potent...

Lyme Study Uses Drug Discovery Methods That Have Fueled Cancer Breakthroughs

December 14, 2017

Labs at Duke and other academic centers collaborate to identify alternatives to antibiotics

New TB Drugs Possible with Understanding of Old Antibiotic

December 5, 2017

Tuberculosis could be fought more effectively with future drugs—thanks to new research into an old antibiotic by Univer...

Biology and Chemistry Combine to Generate New Antibiotics

November 28, 2017

These new compounds are some of the only new class of antibiotics to join the market recently as human therapeutics

Wayne State Receives $1.85 Million NIH Grant to Identify Novel Antibiotic Targets

October 30, 2017

Antibiotics work in different ways, but some can attack the very basic process of making new proteins in bacterial cells...

Antibiotics From a ‘Molecular Pencil Sharpener’

October 25, 2017

Discovery could lead to new antibacterial agents and drugs to combat toxins

Lab Quickly Learns to Synthesize New Class of Antibiotic Molecules Cleanly and Efficiently

June 1, 2017

Researchers develop a complete enzymatic platform for making ß-lactone peptides from simple starting materials

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