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Eureka in genome mining
It’s “an exciting advance in efforts to restock the antibiotic arsenal.”
This is a slide culture of a Streptomyces sp. grown on tap water agar, 1972.
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It's "an exciting advance in efforts to restock the antibiotic arsenal."
Skip to content
Eureka in genome mining
It’s “an exciting advance in efforts to restock the antibiotic arsenal.”
This is a slide culture of a Streptomyces sp. grown on tap water agar, 1972.
Getty | CDC

‘Megacluster’ of genes enables bacteria to make potent antibiotic mixture

A Streptomyces megacluster encodes synergistic biotin-targeting antibiotics - Nature

Antibiotic cocktail made by soil bacteria can kill superbugs

Turkish scientists pioneer search for next-gen antibiotics

A new book shows how, in India’s overcrowded hospitals, antibiotics are asked to do the impossible

AI tool spots antibiotics that fight drug-resistant gonorrhoea

Resistente Bakterien: Antibiotika-Duo stoppt gefährlichen Krankenhauskeim - WELT

India scores FDA approval for breakthrough antibiotic for 'superbugs'

Soil bacteria make cocktails of molecules that synergistically inhibit the growth of microbial pathogens — suggesting a strategy…

In Streptomyces spp., a conserved biosynthetic gene megacluster produces an arsenal of distinct antimicrobials that converge on…

Four antibiotic compounds produced in Streptomyces bacteria attack multiple parts of an essential metabolic pathway.

To battle antibiotic resistance, researchers are leaving no stone unturned, looking at folk traditions and harnessing AI to find…

Researchers tested their newly discovered peptide against the one antibiotic resistant bacteria. Only about one in every hundred…

Technology coming up with new ways to target resistant bacteria such as MRSA and gonorrhoea, say researchers