Nearly a century ago, Alexander Fleming’s accidental discovery of penicillin sparked a revolution in medicine and transformed the fight against infectious diseases. Antibiotics, alongside improvements ...

In every backyard, park, and playground on Earth, the ground is teeming with a type of bacteria called Streptomyces—one of ...

Well before his discovery of penicillin, Alexander Fleming was a member of the Chelsea Arts Club. Less well known is that he also painted with living organisms. Corbis Even to scientists, the question ...

Researchers developed an AI platform that designs drug candidate molecules. The tool incorporates key drug-like traits in its ...

Editor’s note: This article was written by Dr. Aarti Raja, a professor at Nova Southeastern University, in collaboration with South Florida Sun Sentinel staff writer Cindy Krischer Goodman. Antibiotic ...

A tool that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to screen for molecules with potential therapeutic value against drug-resistant bacteria has been released for free to accelerate new antibiotic discovery ...

Millions of people believe they can’t take the life-saving drug, but most can. An award-winning program is helping UVA ...

This article explains why soil remains a vital source of new antibiotics, showing how modern tools are reviving discovery ...

Many of our frontline antibiotics originated from microbes, and as antibiotic resistance spreads and drug pipelines run dry, the soil beneath our feet has a vast hidden reservoir of untapped ...

In the “Golden Age” of antibiotic discovery during the 1950s and ’60s, pharmaceutical companies, research institutions and scientists joined forces in a global hunt for life-saving compounds. They ...