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A new assay testing antibiotics’ ability to kill bacteria—not just inhibit their growth—may help researchers develop more effective antimicrobial drugs.Image…

Cocooned young ants that have been infected with a deadly pathogen can’t isolate themselves from the colony, so they signal…

A colony of Streptomyces coelicolor bacteria secretes an antibiotic compound (red) into the surrounding medium.Credit: Dr Jeremy Burgess/Science Photo LibraryBy…

University of Oregon (UO) researchers have tested a new combination drug therapy that experimental results suggest could dismantle the difficult-to-treat…

A few years ago, researchers accidentally discovered short peptides that could self-assemble into net-like structures in the presence of bacteria.…