For decades, the proteasome has been considered a simple molecular shredder. It chews up used or damaged proteins and feeds ...

What’s certain: Thanks to a funky cantaloupe’s exceptional ability to produce penicillin—six times the amount of Fleming’s mold—the mass-production of antibiotics was finally possible.

Amid a surge in drug-resistant bacteria, researchers believe they have discovered a new class of antibiotics, three decades ...

Florey explained his inability to produce sufficient quantities of penicillin in war-torn Britain. Weaver determined that the Foundation would fund Florey and Heatley’s travel to the US, where they ...

Liquid containing penicillin was drained from beneath the growing mould and filtered through parachute silk on bookshelves. But the team needed drug companies to help it produce the large amounts ...

“We had this thought that if ants produce antibiotics, maybe these antibiotics could have an effect . . . on the diseases of the plants they walk on,” he tells The Scientist. In a review of studies ...

Scientists have discovered a new route to produce complex antibiotics exploiting gene editing to re-programme pathways to future medicines urgently required to combat antimicrobial resistance, treat ...