Australian scientists develop cheap and rapid way to identify antibiotic-resistant golden staph (MRSA). A combination of off-the-shelf quantum dot nanotechnology and a smartphone camera soon... Read more
An old drug supercharged by University of Queensland researchers has emerged as a new antibiotic that could destroy some of the world’s most dangerous superbugs. The supercharge technique ,... Read more
The powerful antimicrobial teixobactin was discovered using a new technique that could speed up the discovery of new antibiotics to tackle resistance Scientists have discovered a new class o... Read more
Electronic implants dissolve after killing staph infection. Researchers at Tufts University, in collaboration with a team at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, have demonstrated... Read more
Scientists have created the first viable alternative to antibiotics, marking the next step in the fight against drug-resistant superbugs. A small test study has found the new drug is effecti... Read more
Bacterial infections usually announce themselves with pain and fever but often can be defeated with antibiotics — and then there are those that are sneaky and hard to beat. Now, scientists h... Read more
“It’s a really, really big problem, not only for individual patients, but also for society.” Penicillin, one of the scientific marvels of the 20th century, is currently losing a lot of battl... Read more
Honey, that delectable condiment for breads and fruits, could be one sweet solution to the serious, ever-growing problem of bacterial resistance to antibiotics, researchers said here today.... Read more
Scientists at EPFL have developed a new method for making antimicrobial surfaces that can eliminate bacteria under a minute. The technology, now tested in a hospital, shows enormous potentia... Read more
“We know it will do an effective job of destroying harmful bacteria within food” Michigan Technological University researcher Jaroslaw Drelich and professor of materials science... Read more
Bacteria hiding in the lungs might not be able to hide much longer. Although traditional tests can take days or weeks to culture to determine the presence of certain harmful bacteria—... Read more
Could eventually replace antibiotics Scientists at Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University (NTU) have created a “magnetic-like” coating that traps and destroys 99 perc... Read more
Image via Wikipedia At this week’s AVS 57th International Symposium & Exhibition in Albuquerque, New Mexico, researchers from two different research institutes presented new types of ant... Read more