Using robots and click chemistry, scientists built potential active ingredients for future antibiotics that contain metal. An ...

Some antibiotics stop bacteria from growing without actually killing them, allowing infections to return later. Scientists at ...

Early in 2025, scientists discovered a promising new antibiotic in a soil sample from a lab technician's backyard. The ...

A new experimental antibiotic has stunned researchers by wiping out dangerous bacteria at concentrations roughly two orders of magnitude lower than some of the drugs doctors rely on today. Early lab ...

A one-dose oral drug called zoliflodacin has proven highly effective against gonorrhoea in a major international trial. The ...

A new single cell-based screening tool evaluates how well antibiotics kill bacteria and may help researchers determine which ...

A groundbreaking antibiotic discovery might finally tip the balance in the global fight against drug-resistant bacteria. Scientists have unveiled a rare molecule with a fresh way to stop dangerous ...

But a new antibiotic from Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche could change the future of how we treat Gram-negative bacteria. Roche announced on Monday that its antibiotic zosurabalpin will enter phase ...

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 ...

Antibiotics are a crucial tool in the fight against bacterial infections. But the World Health Organization has long warned that we are facing an antibiotic crisis. Bacteria can easily adapt, evolve, ...

Approvals in the US for a pair of new oral antibiotics for gonorrhoea represent a significant improvement in efforts to fight the increasingly difficult-to-treat sexually transmitted infection, ...

Drugs that act against bacteria are mainly assessed based on how well they inhibit bacterial growth under laboratory ...