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

A Nova Southeastern University professor and her class of 40 students are conducting research and searching for the next new antibiotic.

In an unprecedented breakthrough, artificial intelligence has been instrumental in unearthing twelve new antibiotics from soil samples. This discovery puts forth new avenues in battling drug-resistant ...

Inside every human cell, a molecular machine quietly shreds damaged proteins to keep life running smoothly. Researchers have ...

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 ...

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

Editorial: Our magic bullets are increasingly rare and ineffective. The golden age of discovery is over and the way we develop and use drugs needs to change ...

Antibiotic resistance is a pressing challenge facing the healthcare industry but a new antibiotic called teixobactin may work for longer before bacteria becomes resistant, according to a study ...

Researchers have discovered a new antibiotic in the lungs of a cystic fibrosis patient that may prove effective in the fight against antibiotic-resistant tuberculosis, according to a study published ...

Scientist Alexander Fleming discovered the mold could kill bacteria. — -- A mold sample may seem like an unlikely prize, but a sample of penicillin mold pulled in more than $14,000 when it was ...