Scientists have discovered a new class of antibiotics with potent activity against multi-drug resistant bacteria, and have shown that it cures bloodstream infections in mice. Two publicly-funded ...

For decades, the global pipeline for developing new antibiotics has worked in reverse – prioritising the countries least affected by bacterial infections, while leaving those with the greatest need ...

Researchers believe they have identified a new class of antibiotics, nearly three decades since the last new one came to market. Teams at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada and the University of ...

Scientists in Switzerland have announced the discovery of a new class of antibiotics shown to be effective against deadly, drug-resistant bacteria. The antibiotic, called zosurabalpin, works by ...

This approach could help us design better new antibiotics, but it could also help revive existing antibiotic classes that bacteria have learned to defeat." Professor J. Mark Sutton, from the UK Health ...

Researchers at McMaster University have discovered a new antibiotic that kills some of the world's most dangerous and drug-resistant bacteria - and does so by targeting a previously unknown ...

Antibiotic resistance develops when bacteria are exposed to an antibiotic and evolve ways to defeat or bypass the antibiotic. Strategies include using the cell membrane as a barrier, destroying the ...

A new experimental antibiotic has stunned researchers by wiping out dangerous bacteria at concentrations roughly two orders of magnitude lower than some of the drugs doctors rely on today. Early lab ...

Researchers at the University of Warwick have identified a set of antibiotic compounds hidden inside a well-studied soil ...

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Scientists at Uppsala University have discovered a new class of antibiotics with potent activity against multi-drug resistant bacteria, and have shown that it cures bloodstream infections in mice. The ...