The discovery of antibiotics is one of the greatest advances in medicine, as it has enabled the effective treatment of infections caused by pathogenic bacteria. However, these compounds have been ...

Human history was forever changed with the discovery of antibiotics in 1928. Infectious diseases such as pneumonia, tuberculosis and sepsis were widespread and lethal until antibiotics made them ...

Scientists say they have developed a new type of antibiotic to treat bacteria that is resistant to most current antibiotics and kills a large percentage of people with an invasive infection. The ...

For people interested in the science behind these findings: By comparing cell lysis from untreated and treated bacteria, it is possible to see which proteins have changed. The cell lysis contains ...

Antibiotic resistance is one of the greatest health threats of our time. With microbes increasingly evading the effects of ...

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute and the University of Western Australia have developed a new imaging method to see where antibiotics have reached bacteria within tissues. The method could ...

Antibiotic resistance is a global concern that threatens our ability to prevent and treat bacterial infections in humans and animals. To better monitor the emergence and spread of resistance, ...

Patients often push their doctors to prescribe antibiotics unnecessarily, increasing bacterial resistance. More trust in patients could help here. This is the surprising outcome of a study supported ...

More than 35,000 people die as a result, according to the CDC’s 2019 Antibiotic Resistance Threats Report. In recent decades, more antibiotics have been developed to treat Gram-positive infections, ...