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 ...
Antibiotic resistance continues to push modern medicine into dangerous territory. In hospitals around the world, infections ...
A new experimental antibiotic can handily knock off one of the world’s most notoriously drug-resistant and deadly bacteria —in lab dishes and mice, at least. It does so with a never-before-seen method ...
A recent Nature journal study uses a deep learning approach to explore chemical sub-structures that helped discover structural classes of antibiotics. Study: Discovery of a structural class of ...
Antibiotics are frequently used drugs that can eliminate and prevent bacterial infections. They might be used in the acute phase of an infection, or to reduce the likelihood of complications after ...
A newly discovered antibiotic can sidestep the defenses of a dangerous, drug-resistant bacterial species. The drug targets CRAB, or carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii, which shows resistance ...
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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 ...