The pathways underlying the production of antibiotics are now quite well known. For example, the antibacterial activity of erythromycin, an important polyketide antibiotic precursor, requires the ...

Antibiotic resistance is turning routine infections into life threatening events, and the traditional pipeline for new drugs ...

Bruker Corporation BRKR launched the new MALDI Biotyper sirius system for all previously FDA-approved assays and research-use-only (RUO) MALDI Biotyper (MBT) reference libraries at the ASM Microbe ...

The antibiotic resistance battle has been going on for years, and unfortunately, bacteria, especially multidrug-resistant organisms, continue to make a formidable enemy. In addition, the scope of the ...

Superbugs are strains of bacteria, viruses, parasites, and fungi that are resistant to most of the antibiotics and other medications commonly used to treat the infections they cause. Antimicrobial ...

In a recent study posted to the medRxiv*preprint server, a team of researchers from Israel developed and validated novel reverse transcriptase - quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) assays ...

Robots are starting to do in a few days what medicinal chemists once needed months to attempt, churning out hundreds of ...