Chemists from the University of Warwick and Monash University have discovered a promising new antibiotic that shows activity ...

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.

Scientists from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have developed a method to isolate genes from amounts of microbial DNA so tiny that it would take 20,000 samples to weigh as much as a ...

A new antibiotic that works by disrupting two different cellular targets would make it 100 million times more difficult for bacteria to evolve resistance, according to new research from the University ...

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 ...

In 2017, scientists at Cincinnati Children's revealed that using antibiotics to protect newborns from dangerous infections often comes with a long-term consequence—a permanently underdeveloped immune ...