Many life-threatening bacteria are becoming increasingly resistant to existing antibiotics. Researchers have now discovered a new class of antibiotics with a unique spectrum of activity and mechanism ...

The development and spread of antibiotic resistance represents one of the greatest threats to global health. To overcome these resistances, drugs with novel modes of action are urgently needed.

Widely prescribed broad-spectrum antibiotics such as amoxicillin can kill off many types of bacteria indiscriminately, including harmless strains. But that can lead to resistance that bugs can pass on ...

Masahiro Yamasaki, Kensuke Nakamura, Norihisa Tamura, Shiang-Jyi Hwang, Muneyoshi Yoshikawa, Noboru Sasaki, Hiroshi Ohta, Osamu Yamato, Yoshimitsu Maede and Mitsuyoshi Takiguchi Valinomycin and ...

Biologists have discovered an aberrant protein that's deadly to bacteria. This erroneously built protein mimics the action of aminoglycosides, a class of antibiotics. The newly discovered protein ...

Antibiotic resistance is a growing problem, and it’s one that large pharmaceutical companies have largely abandoned. Some startups are filling the gap, and a new one, ArrePath, has novel molecules ...

Antibiotic resistance is a pressing issue that has been brought to the attention of the scientific community in recent times by the discoverer of the structure of DNA, James Watson. Antibiotic ...

Swiss research teams headed by the University of Zurich (UZH) and Polyphor AG now report the discovery and characterization of a new family of synthetic antibiotics that possess broad-spectrum ...