Research from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, shows that resistant bacteria can regain susceptibility to ...

The material consists of a specially designed hydrogel that contains antibacterial peptides, which are molecules that also serve as the building blocks of proteins. To enable clinical use for the ...

Biochemists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have discovered a new subclass of trifunctional enzymes in ...

Since their discovery 40 years ago, antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) have been shown to have a key role in the innate defence against microbial infection in animals, plants and fungi. With the ...

Biochemists at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have identified a new subclass of trifunctional enzymes in ...

The recent discovery that vitamin D induces antimicrobial peptide gene expression explains, in part, the 'antibiotic' effect of vitamin D and has greatly renewed interest in the ability of vitamin ...

Amferia's peptide-based hydrogel boosts antibiotic effectiveness by up to 64 times against resistant bacteria, stabilizing ...