Hiding behind the current COVID-19 pandemic, another serious public health threat is looming – the rise of antibiotic-resistant “superbugs.” New antibiotics are needed to help turn the tide, but ...

Human history was forever changed with the discovery of antibiotics in 1928. Infectious diseases such as pneumonia, tuberculosis and sepsis were widespread and lethal until antibiotics made them ...

Scientists at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have discovered they can make antibiotics effective against drug resistance bacteria by disrupting the bacteria’s cell-to-cell communication ...

Lars Stevens-Cullinane works in a dark room. But he's not processing negatives and printing photographs on light-sensitive ...

Regulatory Hurdles Are Higher, but a New Well-Defined Path Means We Know How High to Jump Antibiotic development has become a challenging therapeutic area. Shifting and evolving regulatory guidelines ...

With the country still grappling with COVID-19, it’s hard to be concerned about much else. Regardless, we need to reckon with other looming public health threats to forestall future pandemics, and ...

New discoveries are helping scientists face this challenge in innovative ways. Studies have found that nearly a quarter of drugs that aren’t normally prescribed as antibiotics, such as medications ...