University of Otago scientists are harnessing the power of peptides—the body's own tiny protein molecules—for a spray to help ...

†Amino acids are abbreviated as single letter codes. The arrow indicates the point of cleavage and P1 and P3 residues are in bold. ‡A hybrid protein made up of signal peptide of outer membrane protein ...

Since joining University of Nevada, Reno, Yftah Tal-Gan, Ph.D., has established a chemical biology research program with the overarching goal of developing and utilizing peptide-based probes to study ...

Many harmful bacteria can move to evade high concentrations of antibiotics. This allows them to spread through the body and makes them harder to treat, contributing to the growing problem of ...

Lariocidin hits drug-resistant bacteria where others fail — by hijacking the ribosome at a new site, bypassing defences, and opening the door to a new generation of antibiotics. Lariocidin, a ...

The quest for new antibiotics is going back to the Stone Age. The urgency to identify possible candidates has never been greater as the global population faces nearly 5 million deaths every year that ...

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 ...

The rise of antimicrobial-resistant pathogens has spurred scientists to search far and wide for new drugs. And while many antimicrobial molecules have been discovered in recent years, it’s rare to ...

New research from the University of Sydney's Charles Perkins Center has found that genes play an active role in shaping the bacteria found in our gut, questioning the idea that gut health is ...