Researchers, including from the UK and backed by Cancer Research UK, found that exposure to colibactin in early childhood ...

Physicians have relied on a class of antibiotics called polymyxins to fight potentially life-threatening Gram-negative ...

A team led by UCL and Imperial College London researchers has shown for the first time how life-saving antibiotics called ...

The antibiotic polymyxin can pierce the armor of active bacteria, but are ineffective when armor production is shut off in dormant bacteria.

New lab research suggests caffeine may weaken certain antibiotics by blocking entry into certain cells. Doctors explain what ...

The new study, published in the journal Nature Microbiology, revealed in high-resolution images and biochemical experiments ...

Researchers are calling for an urgent overhaul of diagnostic and treatment guidelines for infections in newborn babies, after ...

Researchers have revealed how polymyxins, crucial last-resort antibiotics, break down bacterial armor by forcing cells to ...

Composite image of E. coli exposed to the polymyxin antibiotic – the images show the changes to the outer layer of armour over time. From left to right: bacterium untreated by the antibiotic; ...

The way antibiotics called polymyxins pierce the armour of bacteria has been revealed in stunning detail by high-resolution ...