Microbiologist Cesar de la Fuente searches organisms’ genomes, including those that are long gone, to find “encrypted ...

New research into antimicrobial peptides, small chains of amino acids able to damage bacterial cells, shows why some peptides ...

New research into antimicrobial peptides, small chains of amino acids able to damage bacterial cells, shows why some peptides are more effective at doing that and also why some cells are more ...

Antibiotic resistance has become one of the most pressing threats to global health. Infections once treatable with a simple ...

Short peptides can self-assemble into net-like structures that kill bacteria. Now, researchers have discovered how to control and enhance this ability.

Brian P. Lazzaro highlights the promise of antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) as powerful agents in the ongoing battle against ...

Using a neonatal mouse model, researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham have shown that changes in the microbiota of the gut contribute to this dangerous lung injury. The changes occur ...

The World Health Organization estimates that 1.27 million people died directly from drug-resistant bacterial strains in 2019 and these strains contributed to 4.95 million deaths. While bacteria ...

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the world’s urgent public health problems. New therapeutics and strategies are needed to contend with the growing number of resistant superbugs. Now, ...

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