Treatment with an Antimicrobial Peptide Mixture Can Impede Antibiotic Resistanceby PLOSBacteria exposed to mixtures instead of single peptides did not develop resistance
NewsNew Synthetic Molecule Highly Effective against Drug-Resistant Bacteriaby Harvard UniversityHarvard team develops a potential new weapon in the battle against antibiotic-resistant superbugs
NewsNew Approach to Tackling Bacterial Infections Identifiedby Mount Sinai School of MedicineResearchers unveil how the self-killing activity of bacteria can be harnessed in the fight against antibiotic resistance
NewsThe Arrangement of Bacteria in Biofilms Affects Their Sensitivity to Antibioticsby Columbia UniversityNew research shows biofilms are highly structured, could pave the way for targeting antibiotic-resistant bacteria
NewsFighting Antimicrobial Resistance with New Drug Combinationsby European Molecular Biology LaboratoryResearchers have tested over 10,000 drug combinations against some of the leading pathogenic bacteria
NewsLeprosy Bacteria May Be Able to Regrow Healthy Liversby Holden GalushaNew study finds that armadillos infected with leprosy bacteria grow enlarged, but completely healthy, livers
NewsA Synthetic Antibiotic May Help Turn the Tide against Drug-Resistant Pathogensby The Rockefeller UniversityThe compound, named cilagicin, employs a novel mechanism to attack MRSA and other pathogens
NewsAncient Permafrost Bacteria Can Be Resistant to Modern Antibioticsby Federal Research Centre "Fundamentals of Biotechnology" of the Russian Academy of ScienceAncient strains of sequenced bacteria possessed genes encoding resistance to widely used antibiotics
NewsPainting a Fuller Picture of How Antibiotics Actby Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMachine learning reveals metabolic pathways disrupted by the drugs, offering new targets to combat resistance
NewsTomatoes 'Mixing Chemical Cocktails': Early Detection of Disease Resistance in Food Cropsby University of JohannesburgA new approach promises to forecast cultivar resistance much earlier than was possible before: at seedling stage
NewsNew Technique for Rapidly Killing Bacteria Using Tiny Gold Disks and Lightby The Optical SocietyResearch team from University of Houston find that the light-activated gold nanoparticles destroy potentially deadly bacterial cells in seconds