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Antibiotics are a type of antimicrobial drug used in the treatment and prevention of bacterial infections.
14 June 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
The combination of TXA709 with cefdinir, an antibiotic that has been on the market for almost two decades, successfully treated MRSA infection in animals...
26 May 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
A bacteriophage, found in a pond in Connecticut, attacks a common multi-drug resistant bacterial pathogen called Pseudomonas aeruginosa...
23 May 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
Harvard researchers have created a new platform for antibiotic discovery that, they say, may go a long way to solving the crisis of antibiotic resistance...
10 May 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
We discuss Innate Defense Regulator (IDR) technology with Soligenix's Chief Scientific Officer, Dr Oreola Donini, and find out more about SGX942...
4 May 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
By expressing the genes involved in the production of pleuromutilin in a different type of fungus, researchers increased production by more than 2,000%...
28 April 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
Researchers at Lund University have identified a new therapeutic target for the treatment of bacterial infections that regulates the immune response...
25 April 2016 | By Victoria White, Drug Target Review
We've created an infographic on the threat of antibiotic resistance, highlighting some of the recommendations made by the Review on Antimicrobial Resistance to date...
22 March 2016 | By Victoria White
Scientists have provided the first direct evidence of how proteins of the ABC-F family 'protect' the bacterial ribosome from being blocked by antibiotics...
21 March 2016 | By Victoria White
The discovery, a crucial step in bacteria's energy metabolism, may be the first step in developing an entirely novel form of antibiotics...
17 March 2016 | By Drug Target Review
In this Drug Targets In-Depth Focus: "The alarming increase in antibioticresistant bacteria", plus "Computational methods for drug repositioning"; and "An overview of Alzheimer’s disease drug targets"...
16 March 2016 | By Victoria White
Researchers from NIST have shown that high-throughput screening can dramatically speed up the challenging task of antimicrobial discovery...
8 March 2016 | By Victoria White
Turning off BCL-XL with BH3-mimetic drugs killed Legionella-infected cells, allowing the infection to be cleared from the body...
3 March 2016 | By Victoria White
Scientists at the University of Brighton have shown that bacteriophage can treat infections caused by Proteus mirabilis and prevent catheter blockage...
22 February 2016 | By Katie Sadler
Pherecydes Pharma has announced the appointment of Guy-Charles Fanneau de La Horie, MBA as its new Chief Executive Officer.
Bacterial resistance to antibiotics is on the rise and a return to the ‘pre-antibiotic’ era has become a frightening possibility. Various factors are responsible for this situation: the overuse of antibiotics in human medicine and animal husbandry, insufficient public funding for research into fundamental bacteriology including resistance mechanisms, and a…
