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Antibiotics are a type of antimicrobial drug used in the treatment and prevention of bacterial infections.
21 July 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer
Antibiotic treatment decreases levels of disease-causing plaques, a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease, according to a new study by neuroscientists...
27 June 2016 | By European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID)
ESCMID and ASM are jointly organising a conference to help researchers accelerate the development of new antimicrobials for drug-resistant infections...
20 June 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
We recently caught up with Frank Pasqualone of Theravance Biopharma to find out about the latest study results for the company's antibiotic, Vibativ...
15 June 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
An analysis of changes in the intestinal microbial population during the first three years of life has revealed some of the impacts of antibiotic exposure...
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...
