Metabolic mutations help bacteria resist drug treatment
Study suggests forcing bacteria to burn more energy could make them more susceptible to antibiotics.
Study suggests forcing bacteria to burn more energy could make them more susceptible to antibiotics.
The discovery can help to cure bacterial infections without inducing resistance or causing harm to good bacteria.
Machine learning model predicts probability that a particular urinary tract infection can be treated by specific antibiotics.
Biological engineer discusses condensing the time taken to develop therapeutics down from many years to a matter of months.
MIT professor announced as award’s first recipient for work in cancer diagnosis and drug synthesis.
Shortening carbohydrates in the bacterial cell wall makes them more vulnerable to certain drugs.
SMART researchers find exposing bacteria to hydrogen sulfide can increase antimicrobial sensitivity in bacteria that do not produce H2S.
Study: Vaccines find more success in development than any other kind of drug, but have been relatively neglected in recent decades.
Discovery explains why some bacteria have been able to defend against phage therapy, opens new ways to overcome existing challenges.
The Audacious Project commitment will support the development of new classes of antibiotics to treat the world’s deadliest bacterial pathogens.
An eminent microbiologist, Demain conducted groundbreaking antibiotics research and mentored hundreds of young scientists.
Microfluidics enables researchers to create unique environment for developing medicine, paving the way for more potent, high-quality drugs.
Deborah Hung shares research strategies to combat tuberculosis as part of the Department of Biology's IAP seminar series on microbes in health and disease.
Polymer may pave the way for drugs to which bacteria are significantly less resistant, a breakthrough that could save hundreds of thousands of lives per year.
By tweaking bacteriophage genomes, MIT team creates a new weapon to combat infection.