Proteins form the structural and functional backbone of the cell, and any perturbation in their synthesis can disrupt normal ...

Piperacillin, an antibiotic in the same class as penicillin, effectively cured mice of Lyme disease at 100-times less than the effective dose of doxycycline, the current gold standard treatment. At ...

Amid a surge in drug-resistant bacteria, researchers believe they have discovered a new class of antibiotics, three decades since the last one came to market.

The development and spread of antibiotic resistance represents one of the greatest threats to global health. To overcome ...

In the realm of Lyme disease research, one antibiotic emerged as being highly effective for treatment of acute infection, and ...

State Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, China ...

"This new kind of antibiotic — lariocidin — works by interfering with protein synthesis that many bacteria need to survive." Siegel reiterated that a new class of antibiotics hasn’t emerged ...

For the first time in three decades, researchers believe they have identified a new class of antibiotics. Teams at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada and the University of Illinois, Chicago ...