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Antibiotics are a type of antimicrobial drug used in the treatment and prevention of bacterial infections.
7 December 2015 | By Victoria White
The €100m ENABLE project aims to identify at least three antibacterial lead molecules with promising antibacterial activity, two antibacterial clinical candidate molecules and to enter at least one compound into preclinical and Phase 1 clinical studies...
26 November 2015 | By Victoria White
Scientists from the University of Toronto have switched off, one by one, almost 18,000 genes - 90% of the entire human genome - to find the genes that are essential for cell survival...
16 October 2015 | By Victoria White
The scientists used novel genetic engineering tools to manipulate the genes required for antibiotic biosynthesis...
13 October 2015 | By Victoria White
Researchers have developed the first animal-free screening platforms capable of predicting the toxic effects of compounds on the human kidney accurately...
13 October 2015 | By Victoria White
Researchers have found that tamoxifen gives white blood cells a boost, better enabling them to respond to and kill bacteria in laboratory experiments...
15 September 2015 | By IntelliCyt
Identification of antibodies against challenging targets using high throughput multiplex-screening approaches...
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Since initiating the project in 2014, significant progress has been made towards the invention of new compounds with activity against both gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria...
14 September 2015 | By Victoria White
The potential new antibiotics are unlike contemporary antibiotics because they contain iridium, a silvery-white transition metal...
7 September 2015 | By Victoria White
Basilea is to work with the iABC consortium to develop an inhaled formulation of its antibiotic BAL30072 as part of a new Europe-wide programme...
3 September 2015 | By Victoria White
The University of Brighton has announced it is sharing in a €5.9m EU grant to support the development of a new treatment for chronic liver disease...
2 September 2015 | By Victoria White
ESCMID advocates the need for greater education, guidance and research on the build-up, treatment and prevention of biofilms...
24 August 2015 | By Victoria White
Motif Bio has announced the topline results of an independent report that show iclaprim is effective in vitro against a range of Gram-positive bacteria...
21 July 2015 | By
Researchers have now shown that a “messenger molecule” produced by P. aeruginosa encourage bacteria to colonise catheters, forming a biofilm...
30 June 2015 | By Victoria White
Scientists have unravelled a key process in the bacterium that causes TB, potentially paving the way for new antibiotics to fight the disease...
16 June 2015 | By Victoria White
Marks & Blerk’s latest report highlights the striking difference between research levels into rare diseases, vaccines and antibiotics across the globe...
