Antibiotics are widely used in clinical treatment and animal production as an effective means to combat microbial infections. Antimicrobial peptides, as potential alternatives to antibiotics, have ...

It is one of the world’s deadliest and most neglected epidemics. It doesn’t grab headlines like other problems because the people it affects are disproportionately impoverished and rural. But every ...

A revolutionary new antivenom has proven effective against snakebites from 17 of the world’s deadliest serpents. Scientists ...

Scientists have developed a broad-spectrum antivenom, potentially effective against multiple snake species, offering hope for thousands of snakebite victims annually.

An international study led by researchers from the Department of Medicine and Life Sciences (MELIS) of Pompeu Fabra University and Stanford University (California) has designed a system to identify ...

Bacteriophages, or phages for short, are viruses that infect bacteria. Using phages therapeutically could be very useful in fighting antibiotic-resistant pathogens, but the molecular interactions ...