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

A common infection-causing bacteria was much less likely to evolve antibiotic resistance when treated with a mixture of antimicrobial peptides rather than a single peptide, making these mixtures a ...

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

Long before we had the luxury of storing milk in refrigerators, households in Russia and Finland had a more unconventional ...

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 ...

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 ...

Some peptides have antimicrobial properties. In other words, those peptides get rid of microorganisms, like bacteria. Some evidence suggests that antimicrobial peptides help with chronic skin ...

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 ...